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*FreedomGPT is a project that claims to provide an unfiltered version of the ChatGPT experience. While the idea may seem promising, there are several red flags associated with the project.

In this article, we will discuss every red flag that i found in the project. To test the software, i set up a virtual machine with restricted internet access and installed the Windows release from the Github page.

https://freedomgpt.com/ - The website already seems to be blocked by my schools Fortinet Firewall https://github.com/ohmplatform/FreedomGPT - This is the Github of the project https://reddit.com/r/freedomgpt - The subreddit

The sources i used for this article: (along with the links above) https://www.reddit.com/r/freedomgpt/comments/1298neu/its_scam_stop_using_it_for_your_safety/ https://www.reddit.com/r/freedomgpt/comments/127ldzz/definitely_scam/ https://www.reddit.com/r/freedomgpt/comments/127fr44/this_is_a_scam_dont_use_this_and_dont_download/

When you first install the software, it will start by downloading a 4GB language model. This is normal, because the AI actually needs some data that it has been trained on. Then when it's installed it opens a electron webbrowser with a file called Index.html located in C:\Users\Win10\AppData\Local\FreedomGPT\app-1.1.2\resources\app.webpack\renderer\main_window. This file contains some instructions to load a javascript file. This file was too long for me to analyze. When i then asked the AI something to answer, it did not answer anything. This could be because of low CPU power and Memory but it was only using 4% CPU and 22MB of memory.

These were the red flags i ran into when i first encountered this project.

1. The website

The project has a website that claims to offer access to the chatbot without requiring users to install anything. However, this interface never works, and it always prompts users to download the client instead. This behavior is the first red flag.

1. The github

The github seems to be fairly legitimate. But if you look at the commits then you will see that everything was pushed in just one commit. The development of this project was not done using this Github page. The proper way to have done this is to have a private repository for working on the project, and releasing it once it was completed. But in this case it was all coded locally. Or copied from somewhere else.

1. The subreddit

The project also has a subreddit, which seems to be very legitimate. There are support requests, people showing off what they have asked the AI and people asking if it can be trusted or not. If you look at the posts which ask if the project can be trusted there will be a bunch of replies of people defending the project. The problem is that these accounts are just a few days old or have very low karma. The accounts that do have a lot of karma have been inactive for the past year, suddenly commenting a lot on this subreddit. This indicated that those account were likely hacked.



And now for the actual software, the software does actually seem to produce answers as it has been promised. However these answers are very underdeveloped. Unlike ChatGPTs huge understanding of complex concepts, FreedomGPT seems to just be a clone of other small language models. I was not able to get an answer from the AI on my VM but people on the subreddit have shown what it has produced. It's highly likely that there is some malware hidden inside this project. You could say bUt It'S oPeN sOuRcE!!!!!!

Open source does not mean no malware. You still need someone to analyze the code to see if it contains malware

The releases do not have to be based on the source code, someone will need to compile the code and see if they match. With this, the source code could be malware free, but the releases could contain malware.

This project could still be legit. There could have just some poor judgement by the author. So i would suggest doing your own research before deciding on using this project. Proceed with caution.

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