Alternatives to ChatGPT

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We finally dedicate an article to alternatives to ChatGPT, it's a difficult article because we don't really like theenthusiasm around the so-called artificial intelligences. We clearly mean the enthusiasm often dictated only by marketers who want to get the word out artificial intelligence everywhere. Furthermore, within this article we will try not to call them in this way because it is a term suitable for the market and which makes one think that there are really some sentient machines. In reality they are programmed to produce "statistically similar" responses to those that the designers have chosen as a data set to calibrate the algorithm during the process defined as "machine learning" ¹.

It would probably have been funnier if the acronym had caught on SALAMI by Stefano Quintarelli ².

In this article we will try to present you with some alternatives that allow you to use them chatbots without registrations or phone numbers as ChatGPT has been doing for some time. We will therefore not dwell on ethical problems ³⁴ or environmental ⁵ but if you want to discuss this topic we'll leave you there community on Feddit called !aitech where you can open discussions and discuss with other enthusiasts!

Alternatives to ChatGPT

We will divide the article into two parts. This part is dedicated to chatbots which can be used simply by anyone without installation or anything else. They are used online like the most famous ones. We have tried to include only those that promise to be ethically sustainable or that are in any case part of projects that we already know and appreciate. Of course, if you know of any others, please let us know!

• Brave LEO AI, it is now quite clear that Brave try to have a complete ecosystem. After Browsers, the research, the VPN, the news and the video calls here it is indeed Brave LEO AI their chatbot that can be used on their Browsers and it is completely free. It is also possible to unlock access to the sector's LLM (Large Language Model) for 15$ per month.
• DuckDuckGo AI Chat, previously available in a limited way only on desktop, it is now possible to exploit GPT-3.5 or Claude 1.2 directly from any Browsers at this address: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Duck+Assist&ia=chat. Chats on DuckDuckGo are not used to train models and are private.
• Ecosia Chat, also the Search engine ecological Ecosia has decided to implement a chatbot to ask questions. You can find it among the various categories by simply going up ecosia.org and his answers are often directed towards environmental or ethical issues. It is worth underlining that: Please note that since Ecosia Chat is powered by Chatpgpt, information you share in the chat will be sent to OpenAI. We will, however, not share any of your personal data with them.
• HuggingChat, also this as Brave LEO uses Llamas as the default template and is completely free and can be used online. In the settings you can activate different models.
• Telegram, on Telegram there are several bots that exploit free APIs such as ChatGPT DALL-E Bot. Bear in mind that it is essentially impossible to know who is behind a Telegram bot and what is done with the written data. So take this into account if you think it is better to entrust your texts to a bot or to a company that you may already trust.
• Presearch AI, also the Search engine Presearch proposes its chatbot. To use it, however, you need 1000 tokens which we don't have and therefore we have no idea how it works!

Other alternatives

The ones listed here are often installed on a server or on your computer and work locally. They are therefore safer but it does not mean that everyone has the space and time to dedicate to a chatbot.

• LibreChat, integrates different models and you can install it on Windows, Linux or macOS.
• Awesome Totally Open Chatgpt (GotHub link), a Repositories on GitHub always updated which contains many alternatives to ChatGPT all of which can be installed on your server or computer. That's definitely a good place to start!

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1. Let's not call it artificial "intelligence".[↩]
2. Let's forget the term AI. Let's call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI).[↩]
3. The dangerous myth of artificial superintelligence[↩]
4. How AI reduces the world to stereotypes[↩]
5. The Green Dilemma: Can AI Fulfill Its Potential Without Harming the Environment?[↩]

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