I've been using Venice.ai and am super impressed with it. So here I am, all happy and shit about not having to mess around with ChatGTP (Venice has better models anyway) and I find out Venice.ai was created by Eric Voorhees.

Eric was on the wrong side of the Blocksize Wars and has never apologized for his action in trying to destroy Bitcoin.

However, this product is awesome.

- I can pay in Bitcoin for a year's access to the Pro plan

- It offers many models (many of which I feel are superior to ChatGPT)

- it's uncensored (to a point - you still can't ask it to generate patently illegal things)

It's hard to give money over to Eric but when I find a product as good as this . . . I have to put my ethics in my back pocket. Venice.ai is simply a superior product.

https://venice.ai/chat

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I have found it to be a pretty weak AI compared to chatgpt and grok. Translation is also very poor.

Really? My experience is very different but that may simply be a difference in our usage styles. Still haven't played around with Grok much but one thing I am sure of, I don't need to support OpenAI any longer with my cash.

Definitely, I hope we can also in the near future host our own AI so we can control our own data.

Yeah, hard no on giving that POS a dime.

Fair enough, sir. Fair enough.

Check out https://lmstudio.ai/ - if you have your own GPU that's capable it's pretty nifty. Let's you choose from a huge selection of LLM's. Whole thing is self hosted too.