• JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      I wouldn’t think so - it depends on your priorities.

      The open source and offline nature of this without the pretenses of “Hey, we’re gonna use every query you give as a data point to shove more products down your face” seems very appealing over Gemini. There’s also that Gemini is constantly being shoved in our faces and preinstalled, whereas this is a completely optional download.

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    Duck.ai doesn’t data mine, and has o3 mini which I have found to be very good. Its got some extra functionality like lines to break up text.

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      Yeah duck is all over bothered with since it came out since you don’t even need to login to use it.

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      I’ve been using duck.ai recently myself and quite like it. My only complaint with it is that the chats have a length limit, so if you’re working on complex projects you can run into those limits pretty quick. I use it for worldbuilding for a novel I’m working on and I have to use chatgpt for thematic stuff because it has a better memory, but otherwise it’s great for quick/small things.

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      Nice! I saw Mozilla also added an ai chat in the browser recently (not in the phone version that I have seen tho).

      It is too bad duck.ai only runs the small models. Gpt4o-mini is not very good, it can be very inaccurate and very inconsistent :( I would like to see the 4.1-mini instead, faster and better and got function calling, so it can do web searches for example. O3 can’t so it can only know what it knows until 2023.

      But thanks for the information I will be looking out for when 4.1 is added!

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    There is already GPT4All.

    Convenient graphical interface, any model you like (for Llama fans - of course it’s there), fully local, easy to opt in or out of data collection, and no fuss to install - it’s just a Linux/Windows/MacOS app.

    For Linux folks, it is also available as flatpak for your convenience.

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      So it doesnt require internet access at all? I would only use these on a disconnected part of my network.

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        Yes, it works perfectly well without Internet. Tried it both on physically disconnected PC and laptop in airplane mode.

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    Wonder what this has over its competitors, I hesitate to think they released this for fun though

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    Google hosting their shit on Microsofts servers and telling you to sideload and not using their own software distribution method for their own OS is kind of crazy if you think about it

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      6 days ago

      Censoring is model dependent so you can select one of the models without the guardrails.