Ruled out because they prohibit sharing your chat logs with other AI (means you can’t post outputs of these on the public Internet without technically violating legal terms of a megacorporation and thus exposing yourself to a legal risk):

# Closed AI (Prohibitions):

1. OpenAI claims it’s illegal, harmful, or abusive to use outputs to develop models that compete with OpenAI, which is beyond anticompetitive and goes into extremely unsafe territory given how vague “develop models” is

2. Anthropic forbids use for competing products or services which is everything since it’s AI which can do “everything”

3. Llama can only teach itself and if you have a successful llama project they can unilaterally revoke your license when you cross some arbitrary number of users

4. Microsoft AI including GitHub Copilot is prohibited to use for AI (ironic since they trained on FOSS codebases, and then any Copilot code taints your codebase)

5. AWS models are prohibited for use to develop competing things (aka, you technically can’t use it for anything)

6. NVIDIA models unless licensed under the Open Model licenses (aka, you technically can’t use it for anything)

# Open Source AI:

1. Local models from HuggingFace with Apache or MIT licenses (or roll your own) - Qwen, Mistral 7B instruct models are good, could potentially use Gemma 9B

2. Groq as long as you *change the default off of Llama every single time you reload the page* (use Gemma or Mistral, no prohibitions on learning from them). Groq has the best ui of the free options otherwise, but has no chat logs. Groq is insanely fast

3. Mistral is free and good. Wish I could pay for no limits. Not sure what they’re thinking with that, but they seem to only charge for API usage or production codestral licenses

4. Google Gemini fixed their “additional terms” with the prohibition on use of the ML tool for ML, so you can use Gemini for work, but it’s a head scratcher for them to require you to give up privacy just to keep a chat history.

Otherwise, I wouldn’t know,

pretty sure Character AI is “noncommercial” based on the BS excuse it’s for personal use only, so Character AI belongs in the closed AI list,

so does perplexity because they scrape but have prohibitions on training on their results, so you can’t share or train on perplexity results, any gpt / Claude wrappers are out, etc.

Grok from xAI wants to be open but their policy is you can’t copy the content so that’s closed AI afaik

Also I believe the Amazon stuff is closed because if you ctrl-f “compet” on their service terms they have prohibitions on using the AI to develop competing stuff.

Same deal with NVIDIA, they prohibit use to develop competing things, and everything competes with AI, so they’re out.

I am not a lawyer but suggest everyone avoid the ones in the former list, not worth your time reading their long legal terms, and to pay for output you can’t use, don’t use em, don’t support anticompetitive AI companies,

Ah, one more goofy one is you dot com, they went as far as to write they’d call authorities if you offend them. So that’s a hard no.

use the ones in the 2nd list and you don’t have to worry if you can share outputs and train on em