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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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[–] XLE@piefed.social 28 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

And keep in mind that Anthropic is just as pro-war and morally bankrupt as OpenAI; the only difference is they didn't donate as much to the Trump coffers.

[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours 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 11 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

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 3 points 11 hours 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 7 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

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 3 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

Thanks, I'll give it a try

[–] AnotherHelldiver@jlai.lu 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours 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?