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List of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT That Can Be Used to Build Your Own Clone
A look at non-SAAS LLMs options Chatbots — the should or should not to open source choices?
One of my readers posted a question. At first, I intended to write a short response, but it ended up being a long-winded answer with some valuable nuggets that deserved a post on its own.
If you are thinking about building an exclusively private ChatGPT clone or LLMs-powered Chatbot, your going to want to read on to find out what your options are.
Let's kick off by having a look at the question that was posted in the comments section here.
Nobody is at least a bit worried that all the training on individual interests is feeding central databases located in private servers. Is there an efficient way to make a stand-alone version of ChatGPT in our own servers (I guess training is the issue to overcome), making personal assistants that not necessarily share our information but, on the contrary, helps us to block information spreading while learning sensitive behavior of the individual users? — Sbrauchi
There are three questions that are related to the reader's question that I would like to address.
What are the current general concerns around Conversation style ChatBots built using LLMS?
What are the things to consider as you weigh all options for ChatGPT clones?
What are the Opensource LLMs options?
TLDR: For those who want to skip ahead to get to the core of options available to build a truly customized, self-owned ChatGPT open-source model.
What are the current general concerns around Conversational style ChatBots offered as SAAS service?
OpenAI was the first to make significant strides in this area and has made it easier to build abstractions around its service. However, convenience presents issues around centralization, costs of going through an intermediary, data privacy, and copyright issues.
While data sovereignty and governance is the primary issue in question on how these new LLM…
