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To be honest I don't think they care about it being alternative.

Just that people keep obnoxiously naming their projects after them for visibility.

Imo this is exactly how this kind of polite takedown should be used. If it highlighted it to you great because at least you know for sure it's not OpenAIs product.

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I suppose, since the substring "gpt4" is there. But, "generative pre-trained transformer -> gpt" seems fair game. Other companies use that acronym, so there's "EinsteinGPT", "BloombergGPT", etc.

GPT is a generic acronym - the wikipedia article writes it out in lowercase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo...

gpt4free means "gpt for free" and also predates GPT-4. I don't think it was meant to be obnoxious or cause confusion.

They should just call it FreeGPT that's what FreeBSD did. So did FreeNAS, FreePascal and FreeType.

But it's clear and obvious to me that they saw GPT2 then GPT3 and thought well let's pun on it with GPT4.

First line of the wiki you link

> Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) are a family of large language models (LLMs),[1][2] which was introduced in 2018 by the American artificial intelligence organization *OpenAI*

Emphasis added.

I'm sorry but that doesn't track. There's no need to be this agressive.

Digression, but why do they call it "pre-trained"? Don't they train it from scratch? Or is the point that they pretrain it and it's intended only for downstream fine tuning ok specific tasks? If so, does ChatGPT use a fine-tuned version? Is the non-finetuned version good for anything on its own?

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