Much like uber and netflix, all of these ai chatbots that are available for free right now will become expensive, slow, and dumb once the investor money runs out and these companies have to figure out a business model. We’re in the golden age of LLMs right now, all we can do is enjoy the free service while it lasts and try not to make it too much a part of our workflow, because inevitably it will be cut off. Unless you’re one of those people with a self-hosted LLM I guess.
Not LLM but there Google Assistant has gotten much more stupid over the past several years. They realized that it was too expensive and had to lobotomize it.
I was about to say, a selfhosted LLM means I’m not competing with every market analysis tool, customer service replacement, and 10 y/o kid bombarding the service with junk. It doesn’t need to be ultra fast if I’m the only one using the hardware.
and who’ll supply the model and training and updates and data curation, dom? is it as manna from heaven? do you merely step upon the path and receive the divine wisdom of fresh llm updates?
fucking hell
Honestly, the data used to create these models was ripped from the public and I think that they are owed back to the public. OpenAI started as a non profit, and I think it should stay that way.
The FOSS model works well enough for other projects and I think that corporate AI will be exactly the same as the industrial revolution, progress at the cost of humanity. This isn’t a problem to solve, it’s a solution looking for problems.
Base open source model.
Topic expert models.
Community lora.
Program extensions.
Look what comfy UI + Stable Diffusion can achieve.
Once they are cut off self hosted focus will explode and will see huge improvements in terms of ability and ease of use.
