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I recommend duck.ai as an alternative way of accessing ChatGTP. Is not a perfect solution but it’s better than accessing it straight from the OpenAI website
I recommend just searching for what you want and reading the results yourself.
I do too. But if someone really does want to use these tools then there are better and worse ways of doing it
True, that's a good point
Yes but sometimes using AI like this is so much easier. I find it really useful in troubleshooting tech problems because you can tell it your specific setup and iterate on solutions until something works. So much easier than reading through 1,000 StackExchange threads which approximate your problem
Just make sure you practice safe searching, son. We love you.
Similarly, Proton has Lumo
lumo.proton.me/
That link appears to be broken on my end.
Looks like the hyperlink got messed up. Added the full url
Okay I see the url now thanks. I didn't know proton had an AI. Seems neat.
@ageedizzle I plan on using https://chat.mistral.ai/ since it's a completely different model that is open source and based in france so regulated by GDPR. If you still use ChatGPT but from somewhere else, it kinda defeats the purpose to switch away from it, in my opinion.
It’s better from a privacy perspective. But yeah, you’d still ultimately be using ChatGTP at the end of the day so another model might be preferable
"Le Chat" lol idk why this looked funny to me. Thanks for the link!
Extra funny when you learn what Chat GPT sounds like in French (chat, j'ai pété)
Of course it's not weird that "chat" is chat in French, but it's also cat which is silly
For sure. And in that spirit -
Another option for people: pay $10 to get an OpenRouter account and use providers that 1) don't train on your data 2) have ZDR (zero data retention)
https://openrouter.ai/
You can use them directly there (a bit clunky) or via API with something like OpenWebUI.
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
Alternatively, if you have the hardware, self host. Qwen 3-4B 2507 Instruct matches / exceeds ChatGPT 4.1 nano and mini on almost all benchmarks... and the abliterated version is even better IMHO
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Qwen3-4B-Hivemind-Instruct-NEO-MAX-Imatrix-GGUF
It should run acceptably on even 10 yr old hardware / no GPU.