>>37280173I will support the devs when they start to make improvements to their fucking chat model.
Memes aside, they seem to be incredibly skilled on the technical side. Their initial model wasn't good just die to luck or magical 'google code'. Even if nobody asked for it, they implemented imgen very fast - now with ability to send images to bots. Even latest adaptive iteration of filter is admitedly very good at stomping out anything indecent (with collateral damage though).
It seems to me, they have little to no idea what business model this projecty going to follow when everything is said and done. They also suck at PR, and any forms of communication really. It's like their machine learning devs are super talented, but everyone else, including management, have very little idea of what they are doing.
At this point, I don't even know who they want to be their target audience. Hyper casual normies and children using bots for laughs in 5-10 minutes sessions? With how much profit you can expect from those users, no way they would even cover server costs. And even if they could make it barely profitable, they would need to somehow market it to hundreds of millions of people.
>>37280444Kobold is a proof that open source is worthless in ai development. NovelAI is an example of succesful business with well motivated devs with no moral qualms barely making any progress. Replika is wildly succesful as a business, and utter shit in quality.
If you look at the field as a whole, and who is making real advancements, its all the same teams in same 2-3 big companies all the time, and very small fraction of them ever trickles down to teh rest. ChAI devs themselves are a rare offshot of this.
For any AI advancement you now need:
1) Team of world class machine learning specialists
2) Shitton of investment money to cover model training and running costs
Those 2 alone are incredibly rare to get, but to get what we would also need 3) devs driven by moral compass that is similar to ours
And even IF those things align, poor business plan and/or nosy investors can also ruin everything
You are counting on a very, VERY unlikely set of coincidences. And ChAI itself is a very rare example of at least some of those things aligning
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