alt Hacker NewsIt doesn't look like it in the full sense of "free". But part of how one pays these services is by running a permissive modern browser which allows the corporation to spy on you even when you already paid in currency. In a sense by depriving them of the ability to easily spy on your this workaround is closer to "free".
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beering • yesterday at 8:55 PM
They already see everything I’m doing because I send my prompts to them. What “workaround” are you referring to?
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voxic11 • yesterday at 8:52 PM
But isn't ChatGPT access free through the browser? What do you mean already paid in currency?
>My best guess is -- ChatGPT is running something in your browser to try to determine the best things to send down to the model API
There's no way this is worth it unless the models are absolutely tiny, in which case any benefits from offloading to the client is marginal and probably isn't worth the engineering effort.