I also am not paying for any LLM. Between Microsoft’s Copilot (formerly Bing Chat), LMSYS Chatbot Arena, and Codeium, I have plenty of free access to SOTA chatbots/assistants. (Slightly worried that I’m contributing to race dynamics or AI risk in general even by using these systems for free, but not enough to stop, unless someone wants to argue for this.)
Worth noting that many of the free options might train on your data.
So, if this is a serious issue for the work you’re doing, take this into account.
(I don’t really worry about the effects on acceleration of paying for stuff like this (or contributing training data) as the effect seems minor compared to other things and also it doesn’t seem like a good signal to myself or others. I am vegan, but I think that is somewhat of a better signal etc.)
Yeah it is a private purchase, unlike eating, so less likely to create some social effect by abstaining (i.e. vegan). I will say though, I’ve been vegan for about 7 years and I don’t think I’ve nudged anyone :|
I also am not paying for any LLM. Between Microsoft’s Copilot (formerly Bing Chat), LMSYS Chatbot Arena, and Codeium, I have plenty of free access to SOTA chatbots/assistants. (Slightly worried that I’m contributing to race dynamics or AI risk in general even by using these systems for free, but not enough to stop, unless someone wants to argue for this.)
Worth noting that many of the free options might train on your data.
So, if this is a serious issue for the work you’re doing, take this into account.
(I don’t really worry about the effects on acceleration of paying for stuff like this (or contributing training data) as the effect seems minor compared to other things and also it doesn’t seem like a good signal to myself or others. I am vegan, but I think that is somewhat of a better signal etc.)
Yeah it is a private purchase, unlike eating, so less likely to create some social effect by abstaining (i.e. vegan). I will say though, I’ve been vegan for about 7 years and I don’t think I’ve nudged anyone :|