openai is expensive (ie, ~$25/mo for a gpt3 davinci IRC bot in a realtively small channel that only gets used heavily a few hours a day) and censored. And I'm not just talking won't respond to controversial things. Even innocuous topics are blocked. If you try to use gpt3.5-turbo for 10x less cost it is so bad with censoring itself that it can't even pass a turing test. Plus there's the whole data collection and privacy issue.
I just wish these weren't all articles about how to run it on proprietary mac setups. I'm still waiting for the guides on how to run it on a real PC.