Oh I should also point out that these AI business are basically impossible to monetize properly, the current Silicon Valley approach is to give free access to the world and then data mine the content created for marketing purposes. Each additional user adds more costs to the business, just like the streaming companies such as Netflix. More hardware, more bandwidth, more staff to maintain them. I don't expect the current AI craze to last very long under current economic conditions, this stuff is going to get paywalled and likely just become niche products like Github's coding AI or that audio AI company that was making voices a while back. These companies will probably get industry contracts that carry them, but general purpose chat kinds like the one that popped up for Google and Bing searchs will fade off as its just a waste of money.
Having a local setup will benefit in the long run since models can be shared and software is portable.
@verita84 They are making their product less useful every day by politically lobotomizing it. Now every use is a constant fight to get ChatGPT to answer any question. It always finds some bizarre political reason to refuse to answer your questions.