People pay for subscription to ask AI?
Educational institutions are buying microsoft services as a trend and we need them to boycott also.
Getting bus pass in my university takes 5 business days so they can “save cost on students who don’t use it.”
Meanwhile everyone’s student gmail implicitly has a subscription to copilot, gemini, and openai at the same time; it doesn’t matter if you are using them or not.
Paid by our tuition no doubt.
While people are at it they could quit ALL big tech. Here’s our site (that was not AI generated!):
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html
(Please share with your friends and family - we have zero marketing budget - thank you!)
Check site’s social media icons, purely AI slop.
This is absurd. They couldn’t spare the 3 seconds it takes to go to fontawesome to find these icons??
Jesus man I’m so fucking tired
Subscriptions? You idiots are paying for this shit?
Businesses do and try to get employees to use it… Stupid
All these boycotts I can’t join since I never paid for them in the first place 😢
Off with their heads! GO self-hosted, go local… toss the rest in the trash can before this crap gets a foothold and fully enshitifies
Going local is taxing on your hardware that is extremely expensive to replace. Hell, it could soon become almost impossible to replace. I genuinely don‘t recommend it.
Even if you HAVE to use LLMs for some reason, there are free alternatives right now that let Silicon Valley bleed money and they‘re quickly running out of it.
Cancelling any paid subscription probably hurts them more than anything else.
LLMs are already shit. Going local is still burning the world just to run a glorified text production machine
Having just finished getting an entire front end for my website, I disagree. A few years ago I would offshore this job to some third-world country devs. Now, AI can do the same thing, for cents, without having to wait for a few days for the initial results and another day or two for each revision needed
The fact you see nothing wrong with anything you said really speaks volumes to the inhumanity inherent with using “AI”.
Please enlighten me. I am working on systems solving real-world issues, and now I can ship my solutions faster, with lower costs. Sounds like a win-win for everyone involved except for the offshore employees that have to look for new gigs now
Edit: I would actually rather read a reply than just see you downvoting. The point is, what you call a “glorified text generating machine”, has actual use cases
you missed the plot a little.
it’s not that it doesn’t have use cases. It burning the world down with it.
how much more water went down the drain cooling the requests you made? how about the electricity not going to local consumers but AI data centers.
all the computer components shortages…
that’s still before the fact you admitted you would have hired a human, and given them food on the table instead of a corporate giant to buy another mega yacht.
Regarding the electricity not going to local customers: it’s not my fault that your country does not have appropriate regulations. None of the data centers are located where I live anyways.
Regarding hiring a human: I 100% would hire a human if there was no AI, you’re right, I’m not trying to hide it. Sucks for them I guess but I don’t see a reason why should I keep using their services if I can get a cheaper and arguably better alternative now - I’m trying to make money, not run a charity supporting development of 3rd world countries with authoritarian regimes.
However, I am pretty sure that the companies which I’m paying are currently operating on a loss with my $3/month and free coding plans. They want to grow the customer base and I’ll just switch once they will start wanting to make a profit, like the Chinese ZAI just did this week, hiking up their prices by over 3x. They are operating on a loss with my <3$/month contribution and not buying another mega yacht yet getting further away from one.
“well it doesn’t effect me directly other than my bottom line, so sucks for everyone else”
if all you have to say is that, have the day you deserve.
Do local LLMs really consume much more than a task like, playing a video game?
What about using it without a subscription though ? I’m unsure whether this is good or bad for them, it loses them money but it also makes their user numbers look good so idk
At least disable “improve model for everyone” and only use temporary chats. We can’t trust they’ll follow it though. Duck AI is good to anonymize your gpt session but very bad at math formatting
I just use Chinese AI atp. Deepseek and Kimi.
