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Tech stocks set to wipe out more than $1 trillion as concerns deepen about the AI boom (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] 17 points 1 week ago* (9 children)

I'm doing my part by continuing to ask chatgpt questions constantly without paying them money. I have started using Claude at work as well. If I do it enough, they'll eventually all realize it's expensive af, and give up on it. That's the hope anyway.

Edit: Also, fucking finally. Been waiting for this to happen for what seems like ages.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    log out before doing anything. chatgpt now serves ads if youre logged in, thus making them money.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Log out of what? I don't have an account. My work thing is officially set up. I didn't do anything but request access to it at work. Now I'm juat trying to use up my works money so they realize it's stupid to use AI for everything. They put a cap in how many credits I can use, so it's not endless. I kinda just wish they would stop trying to shove it down our throats.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    The AI companies don't actually care about your company wasting money. They are making money off of your activities. Your company is losing money. That might result in you or your co-workers getting laid off. Which given you're wasting company resources, you should be. But I'm more concerned about your co-workers getting laid off because of what you're doing.

    You're literally transferring your company's money to AI companies because... why again? Some internet brainrot accelerationist mentality it seems.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    So that the company finds it to be a waste of money and stops giving the AI companies money. Also, even the paid tier is losing money for AI companies IIRC.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Yeah so it's a reverse boycott. After we buy a lot from this company everyone will understand why this company isn't a viable business!

    Meanwhile in the real world, investors see an uptick in usage. Sure it's not making money yet, but they project more growth because it looks it may be a viable business.

    The companies paying for subscriptions see that the employees are using the service a lot and keep paying for those subscriptions. It's silly to assume that a company paying for a subscription for AI isn't going to know the tokens were wasted. If they knew that, they'd fire the employee doing this because it's maliciously wasting company resources. If no one is fired for wasting tokens, we can logically assume the company paying for the subscriptions think the tokens are being used for valid work purposes and continue paying for the subscriptions.

    What would actually prove to a company that an AI subscription is worthless is using zero tokens. Why would they pay for a service their employees don't use?

    Methinks this is a person that is actually using AI and feeling guilty over it. So its... "yeah I'm just using to to waste tokens to fight the power!" That or a brainrotted accelerationist.

    Just another bullshit cog in the bullshit economy.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    One of my favorite passtimes is going on a chatbot and asking it really out of left field questions. "Last night while I was sleeping I was woken up to my neighbor making fried eggs in my kitchen. The eggs were pretty good, but I'm concerned how he got inside. Do you know what seasonings he might have used on the egg? It was green."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    That's a weird thing to do, but I'm here for it. I mostly ask it real technical questions about my game code to see if it can solve it, or find me a source that has already solved it. I usually Google it first tho. But every search engine has made their searches worse, so I don't usually find what I want. Even just a year or two ago searches would pop up forum posts with the solutions to my issue someone else already asked and had answered. Now it's like digging through a hay stack for a needle.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Try Kagi if you can afford a paid search engine. You can even specifically search the fediverse.

    I've been using noai.duckduckgo.com for a while and it's still useful. The problem isn't just the search engines it's the SEO that shit sites abuse to get to the top of searches.

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