CrumblyLiquid@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Want to use some form of ChatGPT but don't want to use the cloud? Run ChatGPT4all locally. It has an API server in the options menus too.English
31·
1 year agoThe title is perhaps a bit misleading. It’s not a version of ChatGPT. At least not in the sense that it’s a version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
gpt4all: an ecosystem of open-source chatbots trained on a massive collections of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue
It’s an ecosystem. They seem to have GPT LLMs (Generative Pre-trained Transformer Large Language Models) and a chat app to interact with those models. Also they say that the models can be run on consumer grade CPUs (this is where the locally hosted part comes in to play).
I believe this is Steve Huffman (aka u/spez) the co-founder and CEO of Reddit. (wikipedia)
This controversy is what this post is most likely referring to.