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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 43 points 11 months ago (6 children)

How do you know if it's open source? Well if it's called something like "huggingface" or "redpajama" there's a very good chance it's made by people who have no marketing department. So good odds it's free.

[–] fpslem@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (5 children)

ChatGPT is pretty crap branding too, for the record. They just somehow managed to mainstream it. All the LLMs after it try to have cooler names (Bard, Copilot, etc.) but the kludgy first name is still better known.

[–] Magiccupcake@startrek.website 9 points 11 months ago

I personally disagree, Bard feels very uninspired, and copilot i associate too mich with flying, and also sounds more competent than it is.

ChatGPT is probably not the best name, but at least it's unique.

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