Comment by t_mann

In some way, I'd be grateful if they screwed up ChatGPT (even though I really like to use it). The best way to be sure that no corporation can mess with one of your most important work tools is to host it yourself, and correct for the shortcomings of the likely smaller models by finetuning/RAG'ing/[whatever cool techniques exist out there and are still to come] it to your liking. And I think having a community around open source models for what promises to be a very important class of tech is an important safeguard against SciFi dystopias where we depend on ad-riddled products by a few megacorps. As long as ChatGPT is the best product out there that I'll never match, there's simply little reason to do so. If they continue to mess it up, that might give lazy bums like me the kick they need to get started.