When chatting with the first came out, all the rage was about how you could punch anything into chat GPT, use it hideously for any purpose no matter how silly or inconsequential, but you could also use it for serious things as well. For example you could ask it a question and it would search the web or search its databases and provide you a detailed response about some topic. Now, chat GPT gives you almost nothing. I asked it three questions today, very simple questions. One of them was about inkjet printers, literally two sentences. Another question I asked was about a cooking recipe. Third question, it refused to answer and gave me this bogus response that I have run out of responses and that I should subscribe…

Claude is apparently in the same boat right now. After I unsubscribed for Claude pro because of it being a true waste of money, I was able to get maybe one or two questions out of Claude a day, and most of the time I can’t ask at any questions because they are at capacity supposedly

So it’s kind of funny. AI is committing mass theft of copyrighted information and data on a widespread scale, the only way they are going to be able to train their AI models and have been training their AI models are through free information that has been taken from users, people of the world, sold to them by third parties. And now, you can no longer use AI for free! You have to pay for the information that they took from you for free, and likely copyright information that they shouldn’t have had to begin with…

Welcome to episode 1 of Black mirror reality TV series!

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Um, companies wanting to charge for their services? Sure it not as nice as getting stuff for free but how else are they supposed to fund the insane cost of running LLMs along with at least some profits.

  • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Try DuckDuckGo AI Chat, which offers both ChatGPT and Claude (as well as Llama and Mixtral) anonymously and free. They lack the capability of searching the web, but they don’t seem to have the same daily limit as official OpenAI’s ChatGPT / Anthropic’s Claude have.

    Also, the free version of Google Gemini seems to have no daily limit as well, but unfortunately its responses are so lazy.

    Personally, I highly recommend Llama, because 1) it’s open source 2) its responses seem more complete 3) it’s totally free.

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    6 days ago

    You can use AI for free on your own hardware.

    AI is committing mass theft of copyrighted information and data on a widespread scale, the only way they are going to be able to train their AI models and have been training their AI models are through free information that has been taken from users, people of the world, sold to them by third parties.

    By “mass theft of copyrighted information,” what do you mean? Who had the copyrighted information but no longer has it? Do you mean copyright infringement? If so, then you should look up “fair use” and keep reading until you understand why they think it’s applicable to their use case.

    And by “data that has been taken from users,” do you mean by users who agreed to terms of service allowing the use or sale of their information/contributions to the site, generally so they could use a site for free?

    Do you think that receiving a service has zero value, or that providing that service has zero value? If so, then why did all of those people use those zero value services in exchange for their information?

  • Willie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    There are a few inaccuracies in your statement, but It was clear the whole thing was about money from the start though, you shouldn’t be surprised about this. If you were hoping for AI to be free to you, you should have only been supportive of software that you could run on your own hardware.

    Anyway, these companies are in the position of ISPs now, where they have customers, but they don’t want to pay for the infrastructure to support the amount of customers that they have, since they can make the same amount of money without making their customers happy.

    None of that helps you… Sorry…

    Welcome to episode 1 of Black mirror reality TV series!

    Well, have fun with your pig, I guess. Haha.

  • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    What do people expect? Those servers aren’t free to run and they’re is only so much VC money to burn. That said I wouldn’t pay the various subscription levels that are currently being asked for. I pay for API use which is basically pay as you go. It also makes you think “does this task really need the non-free tier to complete?”.

  • noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    For example you could ask it a question and it would search the web

    no it wouldn’t.

    or search its databases

    no it wouldn’t.

    • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.netEnglish
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      6 days ago

      4o does perform web searches, give summaries from a couple of pages, and include the link to those pages when prompted properly.

      However, as most people know, first couple results doesn’t always tell the full picture and further actual researches are required… but, most “AI assistant” (also including things like those voice assistants in speakers) users tends to take the first response as fact…

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