the_bear_paw t1_j2ehjwn wrote on December 31, 2022 at 5:45 PM

Reply to comment by 11fingerfreak in There's now an open source alternative to ChatGPT, but good luck running it by ravik_reddit_007

Cool thanks for clarifying, this makes more sense now. I was thinking about this only from the consumers perspective and generally, open source just means free to filthy casuals like me, so I didn't understand why anyone cared since chatgpt is currently free.

Also, after posting I thought about it and asked chatgpt hypothetically how would a German civilian with 100,000 net worth effectively go about assassinating Vladimir Putin without getting caught and it gave me a lame answer about not being used to assist violent political acts, which I found kinda dumb. So I assume feeding it different information and setting different parameters on what the thing can reply to would be helpful.

11fingerfreak t1_j2em9ck wrote on December 31, 2022 at 6:16 PM

There’s some drawbacks that make it challenging for us plebs to use it, of course. The amount of hardware needed for training isn’t something we’re likely to have at hands. Renting it from AWS appears to be around $87k / year. Though I guess we could just feed it text and wait the couple of years for it to be trained 😬

Still gonna try it. I’m used to waiting for R to finish its work so…

This is a big benefit to any organization that has a reasonable budget for using Azure or AWS, though.

EDIT: we can probably still make use of it despite the hardware demands. It just means it will take us longer to train as non-corporate entities.