Absolutely peeved that according to laws: Libraries in a digital format literally cannot exist without being illegal. Archive.org only managed to exist as a Library because they enforced DRM which limited available rentals to the books they “bought” and had copies of.
This is because physical Libraries allow you to borrow their own copies, thus you can even read copyrighted material without asking for permission from the rights holder. So they could argue in court that the DRM only emulated the real thing.
Come COVID and they decide to be nice to people by temporarily stripping the rental bullocks. Their reward for a good deed is a sledgehammer to the stomach.
It matters not, books shall be, and remain forever free (For those that need them). One way or another. All I know is that I’ll never buy a book if I’m treated as a criminal.
I use a couple .bat files that I pre-wrote. Good enough for 95% of my needs.
Tip for anyone over here who wants to ask GPT-4 questions on the cheap. Applying for access to their API will give you access to both chat GPT 3.5 as well as GPT-4 with a different interface. There you pay what you use, which is insanely cheaper with GPT-3.5, and… mildly affordable with GPT-4 so long as you keep contexts short and conversations brief.
Been making use of their playground for months now, probably paid 20 bucks tops for months of use. Worked for my case.
If I need creativity without intelligence, I’ll just use WIzardLM on my 3090.
Do note “Pirating AIs” is not really practical due to the extreme hardware requirements, you’ll hardly find someone willing to foot the bill for free.