Comment by gamegoblin

ChatGPT is, for most use cases, a simple conversational wrapper around GPT3.5 which is available via API. You can make your own ChatGPT by giving the following prompt to GPT3.5:

    The following is a transcript between a helpful AI assistant
    and a human. The AI assistant can provide factual information
    (but only from before mid 2021, when its training data cuts
    off), ask clarifying questions, and engage in chit chat.

    Transcript:
    {your chat transcript}

    Output the next thing the AI says:

This will work basically like ChatGPT for nearly all use cases, and does not have the same lobotimization caused by their safety RLHF features.