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Re: Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI

#11
Predictable. You could just come up with an original name and be fine. "GPT4" obviously means the OpenAI product to people.

For those ootl, here's the previous thread where OP was given a lot of advice from the HN community to change the name https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608437

Re: Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI

#12

I didn't know about this project. Thanks to the takedown notice I'll immediatelly clone it and start using it. Thank you OpenAI for playing a role in me finding an alternative!

To be honest I don't think they care about it being alternative. Just that people keep obnoxiously naming their projects after them for visibility. Imo this is exactly how this kind of polite takedown should be used. If it highlighted it to you great because at least you know for sure it's not OpenAIs product.

GPT is a generic acronym - the wikipedia article writes it out in lowercase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo...

gpt4free means "gpt for free" and also predates GPT-4. I don't think it was meant to be obnoxious or cause confusion.

Re: Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest I don't think they care about it being alternative. Just that people keep obnoxiously naming their projects after them for visibility. Imo this is exactly how this kind of polite takedown should be used. If it highlighted it to you great because at least you know for sure it's not OpenAIs product.

GPT is a generic acronym - the wikipedia article writes it out in lowercase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo... gpt4free means "gpt for free" and also predates GPT-4. I don't think it was meant to be obnoxious or cause confusion.

They should just call it FreeGPT that's what FreeBSD did. So did FreeNAS, FreePascal and FreeType.

But it's clear and obvious to me that they saw GPT2 then GPT3 and thought well let's pun on it with GPT4.

First line of the wiki you link

> Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) are a family of large language models (LLMs),[1][2] which was introduced in 2018 by the American artificial intelligence organization *OpenAI*

Emphasis added.

Re: Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI

#15

I didn't know about this project. Thanks to the takedown notice I'll immediatelly clone it and start using it. Thank you OpenAI for playing a role in me finding an alternative!

Go for it, it’s not a GPT4 alternative anyway. Just an confusingly named project that muddies the waters.

Re: Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI

#16
post #11

Predictable. You could just come up with an original name and be fine. "GPT4" obviously means the OpenAI product to people. For those ootl, here's the previous thread where OP was given a lot of advice from the HN community to change the name https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608437

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these seem like two different projects: gpt4all and gpt4free, by different people.

Re: Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI

#17
post #8

Alright but we don't know enough here to evaluate the legitimacy of the request from OpenAI. Very little to go on.

Given the relationship between MS, GitHub, and OpenAI, do we think there will be a fair analysis or review? Is GitHub still independent enough or not?

Re: Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GPT is a generic acronym - the wikipedia article writes it out in lowercase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo... gpt4free means "gpt for free" and also predates GPT-4. I don't think it was meant to be obnoxious or cause confusion.

They should just call it FreeGPT that's what FreeBSD did. So did FreeNAS, FreePascal and FreeType. But it's clear and obvious to me that they saw GPT2 then GPT3 and thought well let's pun on it with GPT4. First line of the wiki you link > Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) are a family of large language models (LLMs),[1][2] which was introduced in 2018 by the American artificial intelligence organization *Open…

I'm sorry but that doesn't track. There's no need to be this agressive.

Re: Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GPT is a generic acronym - the wikipedia article writes it out in lowercase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo... gpt4free means "gpt for free" and also predates GPT-4. I don't think it was meant to be obnoxious or cause confusion.

They should just call it FreeGPT that's what FreeBSD did. So did FreeNAS, FreePascal and FreeType. But it's clear and obvious to me that they saw GPT2 then GPT3 and thought well let's pun on it with GPT4. First line of the wiki you link > Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) are a family of large language models (LLMs),[1][2] which was introduced in 2018 by the American artificial intelligence organization *Open…

Digression, but why do they call it "pre-trained"? Don't they train it from scratch? Or is the point that they pretrain it and it's intended only for downstream fine tuning ok specific tasks? If so, does ChatGPT use a fine-tuned version? Is the non-finetuned version good for anything on its own?
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