I’m looking for an open-source alternative to ChatGPT which is community-driven. I have seen some open-source large language models, but they’re usually still made by some organizations and published after the fact. Instead, I’m looking for one where anyone can participate: discuss ideas on how to improve the model, write code, or donate computational resources to build it. Is there such a project?
At this point, I’d like to see better regulation about usage of user data for training before this gets approached by the FOSS community. Ideally we should see a regulatory bloodbath where AI training data is concerned (using other people’s data or creation without explicit consent, and ultimately regurgitating that data, as LLMs do).
*I don’t think we’ll ever see sufficient regulation at all – but we should. Use of data in the way needed and quantities needed clearly call for it, in my view