cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/6086432
I started using chatbots yesterday and it surprised me how complete and articulate answers are. Main topics would be apparel, sewing, cooking, finance, ETFs, taxes, house maintenance, retirement.
Do you consider AI good enough to substitute human interaction? Because I remember a south park episode where randy marsh ignores his wife to interact exclusively with a bot. A parody of course but we have already plenty of AI porn and AI short stories for gullible people… and it works because they don’t stop watching (and sometimes believe it to be real).
I was always kind of an anti AI guy due to privacy, to avoid LLMs monetizing my questions and because I didn’t want to be a moron who has nothing better to do than to watch AI slop, but this is a tool so pervasive and practical I’m only isolating myself if I opt out of it. Thoughts?
Are there any questions you won’t ask a bot so the company behind it doesn’t monetize your input?
I selfhost my.chatbox (and agent) on my hardware at home.
Open models are surprisingly good and any thing you tell them stays on your premises, so no privacy risks.
You need some hardware and performance are not as chatgpt or Claude.
Yeah, it’s good, but it’s not a replacement for your own intelligence. Treat them as a free assistant which seems competent but probably says shit to please you…
Always double check and apply your own intelligence.