Hugging Face has just launched the first open source alternative to chat GPT Hugging Chat. In this V0 of Hugging Chat they're only storing messages in order to display them to the user meaning that they're not actually researching or training their model with user information at least not yet. Ithamar Golan says today is a big day for open source AI.
Yesterday ChatGPT announced a number of important updates, including a privacy preserving mode that doesn't record chat history (and doesn't train OpenAI models on chat history) as well as a forthcoming business offering. Many think that the moves are at least in part response to European scrutiny around GDPR compliance. Also yesterday, AI platform HuggingFace announced HuggingChat, an open source ChatGPT competitor.