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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman (www.theguardian.com)
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As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

and also not Musk's Grok and not Google's Gemini and of course not the Chinese DeepSeek so what do we use then?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Preferably just our brains, but if not that, then perhaps somebody running an open model. DuckDuckGo and Proton both have "their own" options, and people with good enough hardware can run something locally too.

[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I know duckduckgo rely on Microsoft bing for search results so I was assuming the AI is from ChatGPT?

I just looked now at their chatbot and they offer dififerent options most are based on OpenAI's GPT (which even if self hosted, still relying on OpenAI). one other option based on Meta's Llama and Calude.

Only reasonable option seems to be Mistral Small 3 which /u/horseloaf seem to suggest as well.

I'll give it a try

[–] horseloaf@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mistral.ai Le Chat has the appearance of being more responsible and is offering open source models. I'm making no claims on their behalf, though.

[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, I'll give it a try

[–] AnotherHelldiver@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

I second this Mistral is great. I made the switch, not going back.

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I don't have any experience with them yet, but I was looking at a kagi search subscription and that comes with AI usage from different models. Could be an option?