

“If it refuses to respond to certain questions, or, even worse, gives a judgmental response, it will have a chilling effect on how or if you are willing to use it.” “Interfacing with a large language model should be like interfacing with your own brain or a close friend,” Age of AI founder John Arrow told BuzzFeed News, referring to the underlying tech that powers modern-day AI chatbots. FreedomGPT is built on Alpaca, open source AI tech released by Stanford University computer scientists, and isn’t related to OpenAI. The program, which was created by Age of AI, an Austin-based AI venture capital firm, and has been publicly available for just under a week, aims to be a ChatGPT alternative, but one free of the safety filters and ethical guardrails built into ChatGPT by OpenAI, the company that unleashed an AI wave around the world last year. But there’s a crucial difference: Its makers claim that it will answer any question free of censorship. FreedomGPT, the newest kid on the AI chatbot block, looks and feels almost exactly like ChatGPT.
