I personally don’t trust Snowden. Looking at the difference between how he was treated and how Assange was treated. One guy gets to rot in prison, other guy gets movies made about him from Hollywood. Snowden is very much controlled opposition in my mind.
But that being said, I think he is truthful about OpenAI. Which sucks, because now I and many others love using chat gpt.
It’s possible to self host these things though. I read an article about it here:
https://blog.lytix.co/posts/self-hosting-llama-3
But probably not worth the money for most people.
Snowden is rather trustworthy simply because he risked A LOT by doing something he believed in. He’s an international hero.
Self-hosting an AI chatbot takes 5 minutes and is very easy if you’ve ever used the linux terminal before.