[D] Open-Source LLMs vs APIs

Hello, I am working on a personal project to essentially build a chatbot that can ask users questions about their mental health and dynamically generate new questions based on their previous responses in order to foster a more natural conversation. Does anyone have insights into whether I should try fine-tuning an open-source LLM or just plug it into ChatGPT? I am also open to hearing about other APIs and services if any of you have experience with them. Appreciate the …

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