What's the best non-scammy #foss or at least #opensource LLM that's available for regular people?
@existential1 In my last evaluation about a year ago, zero open-source LLMs that actually worked existed (although plenty existed that *claimed* to be open-source, but weren't)
@existential1 There are a number of 'local models' (ie. not running on someone else's server), but they're most likely all still trained through labour exploitation and mass scraping of other people's work (though of course the vast majority of them don't tell you what they were trained on to begin with). The energy levels required are different between models, but still very high for all of them.
I'd say that there are no good options, only slightly less bad ones, and that this will likely remain true forever due to the fundamental technical requirements of LLMs as a technology (namely, training data at a scale that cannot credibly be obtained ethically).
@joepie91 Darn. In that case, is there a least-bad option or is it more or less the same and you can pick your own adventure of which corporate overseer you get to give your data to?