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Maxim Lott's avatar

A question -- this is still running on OpenAI's servers, right, and still dependent on them?

Like hypothetically, if you wanted to offer this a competing AI service, they could kill it at any time by denying service. Or put hard limits on outputs did they do on ChatGPT. It's not like a standalone AI that would could separate from OpenAI.

Do I understand that correctly?

David Rozado's avatar

Yes, you're correct.

W. James's avatar

Another issue is: even if an alternative is created, that doesn't mean people will use it. There are alternatives to Twitter like Mastodon, alternatives to the dollar like Bitcoin, etc, that many people heavily advocate for: but they just don't get the same level of usage. Even those who might consider alternatives to be better in some sense still give in to what is easiest. If Microsoft embeds OpenAI's work in all its products, and Google embeds its AI in its search and office suite, then most of the world will be using those AIs by default for search and creating text, unless someone can come up with a competitive advantage in features or convenience large enough to get people to bother using something else.

W. James's avatar

Thanks for doing this, its very interesting. However of course it merely handled a tiny set of questions. Even after all the effort they went through to try to train ChatGPT to be woke: it still exhibits behavior they didn't intend as does the AI Bing chat. It seems like it may be not costly to train a superficial veneer of leanings, but its unclear what percentage of the myriad real world uses that will have covered. Often bias is implicit in what is said vs. what is left out and hard to spot if you don't know more about the topic and aren't looking for it.