AI in every app… chatbots in as many systems as possible… Always avoid them.
Try your best to use them via the Tor network, anonymously and without logging in.
The following chatbots / AI / LLMs are free, do not require a login or account to use (may have some limitations) and are accessible via Tor:
- ChatGPT - https://chatgpt.com/
- Copilot - https://copilot.microsoft.com/
- DuckDuckGo - https://duck.ai
- Lumo - https://lumo.proton.me/
- Meta AI - https://www.meta.ai/
- Mistral - https://chat.mistral.ai/
- NanoGPT - https://nano-gpt.com/
- Perplexity - https://www.perplexity.ai/
- T3Chat - https://t3.chat/ (Poor experience with captcha if you don’t disable NoScript in Tor Browser. Brave in anonymous mode with Tor works normally)
No login required, but inaccessible via Tor:
- Gemini - https://gemini.google.com/
- Grok - https://grok.com/chat
If you use Brave Browser: brave://leo-ai/ (does not work in private mode or private mode with Tor).
Self-hosted
Best option (and the only self-hosted one I’ve tested):
Kobold.cpp https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp and download some model(s) at https://huggingface.co/.
It will run locally, but you can make it available on the local network or route it
Other self-hosted options:
- Llamafile - https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
- PrivateGPT - https://github.com/zylon-ai/private-gpt
- GPT4All - https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all
- Ollama - https://ollama.com/
- LMStudio - https://lmstudio.ai/
- OpenChat - https://github.com/imoneoi/openchat
The “endless bucket of money for AI investments” is running dry.
Those who grow first grow even faster. And survive.
It is the peak of investment, evolution, and innovation.
It started with a free product that attracted large investors and wiped out the competition.
We are leaving this scenario and moving on to the next:
Prices are rising, there are few players in the market, and the doors are open to countless tactics for generating revenue and monetizing user data.
And of course, all your data has always been collected, but the question is: how are they really using the information they have about you?