> Do these self hosted models avoid "protecting the user" or protecting big businesses? In other words can I just ask it any question and if it has the answer, I will get an answer rather than telling me it can't answer the question?
For the most part, open base models are corporate releases with somewhat similar guardrails to commercial hosted models (not quite as complete, because hosted models tend to have a combination of trained and external guardrails applied); but no one is monitoring and trying to terminate your account for using jailbreak prompts, and there are often community finetunes available that (among other things) weaken the trained-in guardrails.
Of course, even if the model does answer, it may nto answer according to the particular worldview that produces hostility to the “narratives of the AMA”.
For the most part, open base models are corporate releases with somewhat similar guardrails to commercial hosted models (not quite as complete, because hosted models tend to have a combination of trained and external guardrails applied); but no one is monitoring and trying to terminate your account for using jailbreak prompts, and there are often community finetunes available that (among other things) weaken the trained-in guardrails.
Of course, even if the model does answer, it may nto answer according to the particular worldview that produces hostility to the “narratives of the AMA”.