Knowing the founders, I don’t think they want to models to be censored so perhaps that’ll change at some point.

Thanks. I get that. If their model wasn't so censored then it would be a great trade off for people without the time/skills/resources to set up a model locally. But with the censorship it feels like you are paying the same to get a hobbled ChatGPT (albeit with some privacy advantages)

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I don’t input personal, private things into the cloud models you’re comparing them to. I could run a decent local model to do the same thing but there’s a large upfront cost in terms of time and money.

Another way to view this is that if you’re not technical (in the unwilling and helpless way) you don’t have much of a prayer of getting a local model running.

Struggling to see the value prop of Maple AI

I don’t input personal, private things into the cloud models you’re comparing them to. I could run a decent local model to do the same thing but there’s a large upfront cost in terms of time and money.

Another way to view this is that if you’re not technical (in the unwilling and helpless way) you don’t have much of a prayer of getting a local model running.