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> GPT is potentially the best thing to happen to emacs in a very long time. If GPT-3 were released as a free program, we might want to use it. Perhaps it would be very useful. Please correct me if I am mistaken, but I think GPT-3 is an unreleased program which people can use only via SaaSS. SaaSS stands for Service as a Software Substitute. It means that a "service" accepts your data, does a specific computing job, and sends you back the results. Using such a service is morally mostly equivalent to running a nonfree program -- so we cannot suggest that anyone DO that. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html for more explanation of this issue. > The way this will work is you will download > the free GPT model, such as GPT-j, GPT-neo or > GPT-neox and then you will have an offline and > private alternative to many things previously > you would go online for. Are you saying there is a free replacement for GPT-3 and we can run these free models with it on our own computers? That could be good news, because we could actually use it. > It will bring back power from the corporations and save it to your > computer, That sounds exciting but it is not concrete enough to think about. open source and transparent, What follows is a side issue, but it's an important side issue. "Open source" is the slogan of a campaign we don't advocate. It is partly similar to the free software movement but discards the moral foundation: the idea of freedom. We don't use the slogan "open source" because we want to advocate freedom, not forget it. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html for more explanation of the difference between free software and open source. See also https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler for Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
