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I asked chatgpt some spicy questions a long time ago (on the order of months), and it was about privacy questions and maintaining privacy online. I even asked it how to keep private from itself. I deleted that account many months ago and it was not immediately linked to my 'real' identity. I've also asked it some other spicy questions about stuff I won't reveal here. Again. Months ago, and by it's own admission if something is reported, it will be acted upon almost immediately. If something is super illegal (as in, I want to kill so-and-so individual) it not only reports it for immediate review but also reports the relevant law enforcement right away.
Chatgpt told me this.
The only way to use chatgpt if you must is with A: a throwaway email (must be reusable) such as those on darknet emails or something that doesnt link it to you by name (such as proton or tutamail). B: over the Tor network.
-To use it over API.
Or, preferably, literally any other LLM API that isn't such a censored privacy nightmare.
The problem here is that most percieve ChatGPT as the only chatbot in existance... It's not, not even close.
Also, ChatGPT is really bad at spitting out its own policy, FYI. expect it to randomly hallucinate stuff.
Please tell me how to do it over an API. I really want to know.
Edit. I have LM studio and downloaded AI chatbots. But they give far more bullshit than chatgpt (which i rarely use much anyway), which is why talking to it feels even more pointless than chatgpt at times.
I am on mobile and can be more detailed later, if you want but the jist is to sign up (with a payment method) to some API service. There are many. Some neat ones include:
Some great models to look out for, that you may not know of:
GLM 4.5 (my all-around favorite)
Deepseek (and its uncensored finetunes)
Kimi
Jamba Large
Minimax
InternLM for image input
Qwen Coder for coding
Hermes 405B (which is particularly ‘uncensored’)
Gemini Pro/Flash, which is less private but free to try.
Most (in exchanges for charging pennies for each request) do not log your prompts. If you are really, really concerned, you can even rent your own GPU instance on demand.
Anyway, they will give you a key, which is basically a password.
Paste that key into the LLM frontend of your choice, like Open Web UI, LM Studio, or even web apps like:
https://lite.koboldai.net/
https://agnai.chat/
Or even the Openrouter web interface.
Damn! That is good shit! I'll definitely look into it.
Yep!
Also, I'm going to plug the AI Horde, which is basically the Fediverse for AI self hosting: https://aihorde.net/
It's awesome! Though a bit sparsely populated, like Lemmy, heh.
Ping me, and I can host a medium-sized model to try for a few hours (via those linked web UIs), if you want. The options are limitless, from something STEM-focused like Nemotron 49B, to a long context model like Bytedance's new 36B, to, dungeonmaster finetunes, to horny as heck roleplaying models, lol. But they should be significantly better than whatever 8B ollama downloads by default.
Char GPT told you what you asked it to tell you. It has no awareness of itself or ita processes outside the context window.
You're anthropomorphizing de machine.