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The process (lemmy.world)
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I mean, there is an argument to be made for wrecking the financial models these companies run on by running their subsidized or "free" tiers into the ground. Right now, all of them are kept afloat on nothing but investor speculation, so if the financial results start to sour (further) there's a good chance the whole house of cards folds on this "industry" when those investors back out.

Doing it by creating pictures of Mario smoking weed is perhaps not how I would approach that, though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    their finances need wrecking for sure, but they seem to be doing that well enough on their own

    the increased processing is dumping literal tons of pollutants into the atmosphere, our drinking water, and our food supply and wasting our increasingly difficult to obtain fossil fuels, which we need for a bunch of other things like medical supplies and fertilizers for food for the actual real humans that are alive right now

    i say all this with no anger or hostility

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think we could consider it a form of eco-terrorism like sabotaging an oil pipeline. It will hurt the ecosystem in the short term, but it hopefully reduces the much larger ecosystem damage the company would've otherwise done in the long term.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    It could work in theory as a form of sabotage, but I believe one would need to have great self-restraint to do it correctly.

    It's hard to notice the difference when you are

    1. actually hurting AI industry by abusing their free tiers and poisoning training data

    2. you rationalize your AI usage by telling yourself "I am not paying so I am in the clear" because you want to larp as freedom fighter without actually sacrificing any comfort

    Both subjectively feel very similar.

    So I would rather not risk becoming 2nd case and avoid AI altogether, unless you are some hacktivist who actually knows what they are doing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Going easier on the free tier stuff isn't going to speed up their collapse. I was shit posting but it's a genuine tactic people are using to be accelerationists against the AI bubble.

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