How many times have you run into pip install complaining about needing root access? With the latest versions of Python, you can easily create a virtual environment and I think it makes sense to create one in your home directory.
[cbrake@ceres ~]$ python -m venv pybrake
[cbrake@ceres ~]$ . pybrake/bin/activate
(pybrake) [cbrake@ceres ~]$ pip install gpt4all
Collecting gpt4all
Downloading gpt4all-1.0.8-py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (4.2 MB)
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...
(pybrake) [cbrake@ceres ~]$ deactivate
[cbrake@ceres ~]$