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		JKCalhoun 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open models by OpenAI I do it because 1) I am fascinated that I can and 2) at some point the online models will be enshitified — and I can then permanently fall back on my last good local version.

captainregex 5 months ago [–]

love the first and am sad you’re going to be right about the second

JKCalhoun 5 months ago | [–]

When it was floated about that the DeepSeek model was to be banned in the U.S., I grabbed it as fast as I could.

Funny how that works.

bavell 5 months ago | | [–]

I mean, there's always torrents

JKCalhoun 5 months ago | | [–]

I expect so. Still, it was easy to not have to even think about that.

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