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Why would I ever even have bought a ChatGPT subscription when there were free ways to access LLMs that were just as good?
I have a gpu, I downloaded some models, played a little, got bored very fast.
Yeah, it's a fun toy that's definitely not worth any money (at present, possibly forever).
In all fairness, recently duck.ai has been adding a "settings" portion to help you prompt the LLM to get much better results, but again, that costs $0 to use. The couple times I've used its "tech support" setting, it's been fairly helpful, but I wouldn't trust it on anything serious (due to how often LLMs hallucinate).
I've tried it a few times for help with technical tasks just outside of my knowledge. It was most useful when giving me bad ideas that I argued against and, in the process, figured out better solutions.
There are uses for it. The problem is that it's easily misused to do the thinking.
Something I've noticed is that people seem to think it counts for "googling" something, to rely on the LLM summary in a Google search.
The handful of times I've called someone out they've pitched a fit for me pointing it out as if there's no difference.