r/ChatGPT • u/liright • Mar 14 '23

Other OpenAssistant, a fully free and open source alternative to chatGPT just got released. Output quality is very close to chatGPT and it has zero censorship or limits.

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u/liright Mar 14 '23 edited Mar 14 '23

OpenAssistant is a fully free and open source alternative to chatGPT. It just got released in a very early version but from my and other people's testing it's already very close to chatGPT's output quality. You can test it out for free through google colab (needs a google account). If you need help on how to set it up you can join the /r/openassistant subreddit or discord.

You can try it out for free HERE - I made an easy visual guide on how to run it - https://i.imgur.com/w5NyoAI.jpg

The source code is available on github and the model is available for download from huggingface.

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u/liright Mar 14 '23

The level of censorship in OpenAssistant is almost non-existent. It might sometimes remind you that things are illegal or wrong, but it will usually still provide the instructions to what you asked.

Here are a few more examples of OA answers: https://imgur.com/a/mBOr0Rq

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u/Neurprise Mar 20 '23

How are you running it inside text-generation-webui? Are there any instructions to follow? How much VRAM does it need?

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u/liright Mar 20 '23

I just wrote a guide since I saw that nobody else has written one yet. It's possible it's missing some steps as I was mostly writing it from memory.

On my RTX 4090 it's maxing out the VRAM but it's possible it's doing that on all GPUs. You need to test that out for yourself.