There are so many out there, with varying benefits, risks, and ethics. I’d like to know what to recommend when asked, and also what I could use for myself.

Some areas that could be good for discussion:

  • Locally hosted models (both for low and high powered devices)
  • Open source models (also calling out “open source” models that aren’t actually open source)
  • Privacy friendly tools/frontends (ex. DuckDuckGo’s AI chat for anonymous use of some “free” models)
  • Unified interfaces for multiple models, or ‘pay as you go’ platforms instead of paying for individual subscriptions
  • @CheapFrottage
    2•6 months ago

    I’ve never used one, though a mate uses chat gtp constantly so I make him ask it things fairly often. However, I’ve just bookmarked DDG, that seems useful. If there’s a similarly private voice assistant for iOS (that works better than Siri) then I’d probably use that in preference to a traditional search engine a lot of the time