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Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by setopt »

ddxv wrote: post #96
segmondy wrote: post #76

This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend runn…

I really hope at some point in the near future AI models shrink enough or laptops get strong enough to run AI models locally. I haven't tried in the past year, but when I did it was very slow token output + laptop was on fire to make that happen. I've wanted to try some of the more recent 8B models for local tab completion or agentic, any experience with those kinds of smaller models?

I had some luck with Ollama + Mistral Nemo models on consumer hardware, it seemed to punch above its "weight class". But it’s still far enough behind ChatGPT et al. that I couldn’t stop using that for real work.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by rustyhancock »

vasco wrote: post #27
overgard wrote: post #25

I just can't help but imagine ChatGPT's sycophancy mixed with military operations. "Sharp insight bombing that wedding! Next would you like tips on mosques to bomb, or I can suggest some new napalm recipes that are extra spicey. Your call!"

The point is it will be autonomous, the prompt could just be 'keep me safe' which will be interpreted who knows how and presumably no further prompting.

Don't forget to add no melting ghost babies to that prompt!

https://youtu.be/EYvrziE4feI?si=_CxjOQ3AaTMuwNXj

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by siquick »

winternewt wrote: post #138
segmondy wrote: post #76

This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend runn…

And if you don't want to buy a Mac? A 80 GB NVidia GPU costs $10,000K (equivalent to 30 years of ChatGPT Plus subscription) and will probably be obsolete in 5-7 years anyway. What are my options if I want a decent coding agent at a reasonable price?

Rent a H100 on Modal which scales down to zero when not in use - you can set the time out period.

Cold boot times are around 5m but if your usage periods are predictable it can work out ok. Works out at $2 an hour.

Still far more expensive than a ChatGPT sub.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by computerex »

segmondy wrote: post #76

This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend runn…

As someone who desperately wants to use local models, I lament there is no way to use them on consumer hardware for serious coding work. I have a rtx 4070 super ti and I cannot run any large model with enough context and tps compared to a remote offering.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by bravetraveler »

mikae1 wrote: post #132
hypercube33 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are the Ryzen 395 with 128gb for running models these days?

Also interested.

No complaints here, I use a Framework Desktop with this chip. 32G given to RAM and the rest plays VRAM. Can use large models like 'gpt-oss:120b' fine. Splurged and got a second SSD for mirroring, hoping to speed up reads/model loads. Haven't tested this for efficacy, but it also gives redundancy. Shrugs!

Haven't paid a subscription in years or even signed up for $EMPLOYER offerings; handles the rare outsourcing well enough.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by lukan »

overgard wrote: post #25

I just can't help but imagine ChatGPT's sycophancy mixed with military operations. "Sharp insight bombing that wedding! Next would you like tips on mosques to bomb, or I can suggest some new napalm recipes that are extra spicey. Your call!"

If Antrophic would have given in, I would have imagined the dialogs something like in claude CLI:

To complete the mission the war terminal needs to hit a target at XY:

1. yes

2. yes (and don't ask again for strike targets in this session)

3. no

Human in the loop is the term here I think.

(I am really glad they did not give in, but I do assume this is what it will come to anyway)

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by SeriousM »

tombert wrote: post #39
overgard wrote: post #25

I just can't help but imagine ChatGPT's sycophancy mixed with military operations. "Sharp insight bombing that wedding! Next would you like tips on mosques to bomb, or I can suggest some new napalm recipes that are extra spicey. Your call!"

Department of Defense: You just bombed the wrong Georgia! The people of Atlanta are furious! ChatGPT: You're absolutely right, and you're right to call that out. Upon examination it does appear that there might have been a mistake with the coordinates of the bomb. Let's try again, this time we will double check before we launch any missiles! :missile emoji:

Department of War...

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by Palmik »

Nevermark wrote: post #32
pbiggar wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notice that Anthropic doesn't support spying on Americans specifically - spying on anyone else is fine. Can't spy on three specific 300m people, but spying on the other 7.7B totally ok.

Well, yes. But the desire and ability to control non-citizens en masse is nothing like the threat a government is to its own citizens. In practice the two activities have very different natures and impact.

Except most of the world's population, and in fact large fraction of the engineers and scientists working on these things, are not US citizens.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by exe34 »

overgard wrote: post #25

I just can't help but imagine ChatGPT's sycophancy mixed with military operations. "Sharp insight bombing that wedding! Next would you like tips on mosques to bomb, or I can suggest some new napalm recipes that are extra spicey. Your call!"

reminds me of the lazy gun in against a dark background!
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