Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com aldalire @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

GPT-4 for free

Hello sailors,

I have been job hunting for a while and I have felt a great disadvantage in my job search due to my lack of access to high-quality LLMs. Writing cover letters is honestly so bullshit. GPT-3 is honestly quite bad nowadays, but as a true pirate at heart I couldn't quite get myself to cough up the coin for OpenAI's GPT4 out of principle. I hate them for putting their cutting edge technology behind a paywall, making it inaccessible for their own gain. I feel like this is not what the internet was supposed to be. So today, call me the great emancipator cuz i'm teaching u how to get that shi for free baby

Requirements: Docker

It's all gonna be based off of this github repo: gpt4free

Installing through docker (there's also a way to install with Python PIP if that's more convenient for you. The docker worked for me though)

docker pull hlohaus789/g4f
docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 1337:1337 -p 7900:7900 --shm-size="2g" -v ${PWD}/hardir:/app/hardir hlohaus789/g4f:latest
Open up the webui in your browser at localhost:8080
In the "Provider" dropdown in the bottom look for "Liaobots"
Choose "gpt-4-plus" under the "Models" dropdown

??? Profit

The cool thing about gpt4free is that there's a lot of providers and a lot of models to choose from! So if gpt-4-plus from Liaobot doesn't work for you you can switch to something else easily. Do note that some models require you to provide an authentication token or be logged in. Most of them work right out of the box tho.

*this post was not made with any use of an llm I promise ;)

^^list of gpt4 providers

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This feels... Scammy? Not to be accusatory, but gpt 4 is expensive to run. It is impossible for people to use it for free.

What llm is actually providing the response here? Either someone is footing the bill for an API and acting as a proxy, a situation which raises many red flags, or the model you're talking to is something far cheaper to run, like a mistral model.

Even the second case is sketchy. 😅
- Figuring this one out myself too. Liaobots is a chinese site and when asked about the gpt-4-plus model it mentions that it's based on the gpt-4 architecture but i'm not too sure as well. My guess is that the chinese reverse engineered gpt-4 and put it out there, like a bootleg gpt-4.
  
  Bing tends to get heavily ratelimited.
  
  So maybe, yes you're there's a sketchiness and too-good-to-be-true factor to this so maybe calling it "free gpt-4" is a bit misleading. But it's still super cool to have an all-in-one interface for all your llm providers and models :)
  
  There is almost no chance that it is truthfully based on gpt 4. If you want a free, open source llm with 32k context and generous limits, I recommend using huggingface.co/chat/
  
  The nous-hermes model (you can select different models) is uncensored, and performs really well for a open source model. Plus, they have data controls so you can turn off data gathering per model. Huggingface is a reputable vendor, and doesn't claim to be something it isn't.
AI Horde provides LLMs for free. They're not GPT4, but they're uncensored and crowdsourced by the community. There's also not tracking or ads. Here's a frontend for LLMs. No need to install anything either. If you have a decent GPU, you can also assist others with generations
- Thanks for this 🙌 this is also pretty good
Oh, man. I hope you won’t take this poorly, but I can promise you that setting up some kind of GPT4-based LLM to wrote cover letters won’t help you find another job. Not ever.

I’m not sure if you’re trolling (if you are, LOL), but this is not the tree to bark up. Good luck though. The job market sucks at the moment.
- Cover letters are about showing you are willing to put the effort in to writing a cover letter, nobody actually reads cover letters. LLMs are great for them until companies realize everyone is just using LLMs.
  
  They already know that and have since people started using LLMs.
  
  Also, if you write a cover letter with an LLM and don't tweak it, it's obvious to anyone who knows what to look for.
- My sister got a job with a primarily LLM-written cover letter. When trying to sway someone to your side, how you say something can matter more than what you say.
  
  For people who aren't good at articulating themselves, noting down key dot points about their skills and job history alongside a job description, then asking a LLM to write out a cover letter can be very helpful, even if only to get a rough draft.
  
  As an aside, out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT 3.5 to rewrite my comment above and got the following, not sure which is better TBH.
  
  My sister landed a job using a cover letter mostly written by a language model. When persuading someone, the tone and style of your message can outweigh its content.
  
  For individuals who find it challenging to articulate themselves, outlining key skills and job experiences alongside a job description, and then seeking assistance from a language model to compose a cover letter, can prove highly beneficial, even if only as a starting point.
  
  It would sound snarky to say ~~correlation is not causation~~ so let me say instead: just because your sister got a job with that cover letter doesn't mean it's the reason.
  
  Hiring managers and HR don't always read cover letters. Most never do. All your applications go into a applicant tracking system (ATS) anyway and your info gets extracted. Lately, folks uses LLMs to query that stuff: "find me all the candidates who went to top colleges," or "which of these candidates can bend a steel beam with their bare hands," etc.
  
  It's not the right sub for this, but spending a bunch of energy on cover letters won't do much. Better cover letters won't hurt and BAD cover letters might hurt, but there are many other reasons someone doesn't get call-backs.
  
  I have zero clue what field OP works in, but they're actually free to DM me for advice if they like.
I would be careful with some of these providers depending on your usage.
You are potentially sending a ton of info to them..

I have access to Bing Chat Enterprise through my company, and only because its the Enterprise version i am half confident in using it with more restrictive data.
Though the frontend of copilot is so heavy and sucks, so i have a proxy for GPT-API to Bing Chat.
Had hoped GPT4All Bing provider would support login, but sadly not, so essentially had to reimplement it all myself.
Also check out https://gpt4all.io/ if you don't want to use Docker (for some reason).
- I see that it uses a local model. How good is it really? How fast are the responses in consumer grade gpus?
  
  It let's you pick from a whole bunch of local models to download, some trained by Microsoft and the like. In my experience it's pretty responsive on a 2070s ive had for years now, but the responses aren't as good as something like gpt4. Probably about on par with gpt3 in most cases if you choose a larger model.
  
  LMStudio is excellent for downloading and running local models. Performance and quality are vastly improved since the first versions of LLMs came out. I get near instant responses on my laptop with only a GTX1650 in it.
  
  With that said, they still fail to produce much of value. YMMV
Seems scammy (not you, but the "free" gpt4 providers)
I never apply to jobs that require a cover letter. Most of them have shitty work environments anyways
- big facts but homeboy needs the money
  
  My job has no cover letter, 2 interviews and it's probably the best dev job I've had. All about finding a company that values your time as a person and not just as an employee. If they make you jump through bs to get hired, they're gonna make you jump through BS to work. I could make 20k more at one of those companies but id hate my work and have no balance.
- Congrats but some of us don't have that luxury. Using an LLM to generate a cover letter is fine, as long as you don't add any PII and revise it yourself so it isn't obvious a chatbot wrote it.
  
  Of course you do? There are jobs that won't put you through bullshit just to work there. I never said it wasn't fine, but making you jump through hoops is a sign of a bad workplace.
Oh and also for docker noobs, you might wanna put a sudo before the docker commands ;)
- You don't have to if you follow the documentation.
  
  Hmm. I’m confused. This is a snippet from archwiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/docker
  
  Is it better to add the user to the docker group instead?
OP, is this online or will I need a big CPU with lots of storage to run this?
- online :)
huh, look what i found https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/a-developer-exploited-an-api-flaw-to-provide-free-access-to-gpt-4/
Tried out GPT4 when it first dropped. Glorified chatbot that has zero agency. I struggle to find an application for it other than summarizing blocks of text.
If you really want to use gpt-4 for a cover letter (don't think it'll help that much, but I won't judge), just get yourself an API Key and use the API with a local frontend. The requests you need for a cover letter will likely amount to a few cents.

I get the whole pirate spirit thing, but this all seems wonky at best. If you want fully free gpt-4, there's always Bing Chat.
I use the android app and it has a GPT-4 option... Am I missing something? Isn't it already free?

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