No. All generative AI is made with stolen labor, and the data centers use shittons of energy and water in order to tell you to eat rocks or make a picture of someone with 6½ fingers.
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It may be worth editing your post to specify that you're talking about LLMs. There's no indication that this is your intent without reading your responses in the comment section.
Ethical meaning : "private", "anonymous, "not training with your data", "no censured", "open source"...
Private, anonymous, and uncensored. Those are easy. There's plenty of pre-trained LLMs out there that you can download and use however you like.
Not training with your data, not possible as far as I'm aware. LLMs rely on the availability of a huge quantity and diversity of data. There isn't enough of that available that also come with consent of the creator for this usage.
Open source isn't well defined for machine learning models. Lots of models have their code and weights available, so if that qualifies for you, that's also easy to find. Huggingface hosts most of them.
if you want ethical as in not trained on stolen data, then the Adobe AI is only trained on adobe stock photos, but not open source or free.
if you want ethical as in self hosted then I would recommend looking into LocalLlama https://github.com/jlonge4/local_llama for terminal or https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all for a UI.
I wish you luck on your adventure and sorry about lemmings being assholes and downvoting just bc they see "AI" and go into a fit of rage 🤷♀️
Ethical meaning : “private”, "anonymous, “not training with your data”, “no censured”, “open source”…
Yes. You have to be careful with the meaning of "ethical". Most often, people write about "ethical AI" to demand money for copyright owners.
Case in point: Some people say that AI is only open source if the training data can also be shared freely. That means the training data has to be public domain or that permission by the copyright owner was obtained. If that's what you mean by "open source", then your options are extremely limited. EG some offerings from AllenAI.
Uncensored is also tricky. Many say that ethical AI does not output bad content. Of course, what bad content is depends very much on who you ask. The EU or China have strict legal requirements but not the same, of course. In any case, when you train an AI, you steer it to generate a certain kind of output. Respectable businesses don't want NSFW stuff. Some horny individuals out there want exactly that. So it depends on what you want.
Check out the SillyTavernAI subreddit (and also LocalLlama). There you find people who value private, uncensored LLMs, though not necessarily copyright. It's also where the above-mentioned horny individuals hang out for related reasons.
Duckduckgo offers free, anonymous access to major Chatbots. Maybe worth checking out.
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The awkward grammar in the book cover makes this image so funny to me for some reason.
allenai.org has actual open source ai models
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Guns with safety locks.
thanks for not helping anyone at all :/
That's the whole point.
You don't have to look far, you can just download any LLM, serve it on your VPS or even PC and it will do.
Doesn’t make it ethical. It was still trained on stolen data, and took an inordinate amount of water and energy to train it.
Yes, but I'm not here to debate that. I'm only giving OP the answer with accordance to his own definition, I don't see what's wron with that.
Absolutely this! No Ai is ethical and no Ai use is justified.
Any LLM you would recommend?
You'll have to do your own research, every model performs differently depending on the field.
1.type your prompt or whatever you want to achieve into "no stupid questions" 2. wait 3. win
I can't guarantee that the "intelligence" is either artificial or Welsh or whatever , but you might as well hope.