We need actual institutions to start boycotting microsoft too.
Getting bus pass in my university takes 5 business days so they can “save cost on studente 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.
Never paid for it, but I would use it here and there. Never again, account deleted.
I “used it” for a few afternoons, to marvel what its capable of. Writing coherent short stories and shitty Weird Al songs that work surprisingly well, but the novelty soon wore off and I have no real use for it. Its like the coolest toy ever, but it can only keep me entertained for so long.
I “used it” about 6 times since then, and every time has just been to demonstrate it for old people who dont know the internet.
People pay for this shit?
I don’t pay for AI. There is no real value in it at massive scale for it to be paid for me. Plus it is harmful. I can local host AI for small tasks like cleaning up some data.
Yep! I feel way, way safer when I use something running on my laptop as opposed to feeding things into the bottomless hole that is Microsoft or Anthropic.
All I want is something to double-check the verbiage of an email to make sure I’m not coming off like an asshole.
Nah I’m gonna use my free account to prompt a bunch if inane shit to drive up operating costs while poisoning their training data
It blows my mind people actually subscribe to mostly wrong answers.
I kinda wish I’d been using it so I could quit!
I initially subscribed to ChatGPT because I got a job as the only devops guy at an organization, when I had very limited devops experience, and ChatGPT essentially served as my mentor. I justified keeping it for a long time because it helped my productivity; bugs that I had no idea where to start with could be worked through given a few hours (or days) of back-and-forth.
As I climbed the learning curve, ChatGPT became proportionally less helpful, but I kept it because it’s kind of useful for rubber ducky debugging. I did find Copilot to be pretty handy for writing docstrings (especially for keeping consistent formatting conventions), but the actual code completions were more annoying than anything.
When all was said and done, I cancelled my ChatGPT and Copilot subscriptions because I’m taking on a mortgage tomorrow and I literally just can’t afford them. I have Ollama running on my homelab server, but I only have enough vRAM for a 7B-param model, and it kind of sucks ass, but whatever. At the end of the day, I like using my brain.
Grok/Mechahitler owner likely has donated more to GOP/Trump rule. Anthropic CEO wrote an essay that outlined dangers of AI recently, but also underlined how the pure good US must develop Skynet to oppress all of the bad evil opposition to the US empire.
The entire industry is lining up to get US government military/surveillance applications to use the absurd level of datacenters/energy that are being committed to, because “Skynet now or China wins” is even more aggressive consensus than “too big to fail”.
Yes agree, i have quit MSFT fully (switched to Ubuntu), Amazon prime is gone and no longer buying from them. Cancelled my Claude subscription, my gmail now auto forwards to my local server, switched my web hosting from AWS to Hetzner, Cancelled my netflix, back to library and jellyfin local server. Same with Spotify. No more Safeway or QFC - Costco is good enough and has the lowest prices locally, or occasionally Trader Joes. Its saving me a whole shit ton of money.
Unsubscribe from all the things.
Except my VPN. You don’t need to know where I live.
Unless you’re (not you PhoenixDog specifically, the general You referring to the reader) blocking your browser fingerprinting, using Ad blocker, DNS filtering from trusted sources, not using social media app, not installing apps that require Google Play Services and not using your credit card for digital payments then simply changing the IP address that the server sees doesn’t do very much.
VPNs can be part of a solution but if you are not doing all of the other things then they do not hide who you are because of the plethora of other avenues that you can be tied to an existing advertising identity.
but be careful of which VPN provider you’re using. Mulvad is a good option
Using Nord right now. Looking into that one though I may switch.
Yeah, VPN’s are unfortunately essential. If I hadn’t made it a project to request deletion of my info off the top 30 background check sites, I’d be using something like DeleteMe too.
I just unsubscribed from my landlord
People pay for subscription to ask AI?
Or worse: have it make images that they then post online
The piss filter burns so badly. If people post those, I appreciate them volunteering to be blocked.
Check site’s social media icons, purely AI slop.
That looks like someone messed up the vector graphic icons. It doesn’t look like an AI problem.
This is absurd. They couldn’t spare the 3 seconds it takes to go to fontawesome to find these icons??
The whole website was probably built by agentic AI.
I’d wager the entire page was vibe coded.
Seems the site is made up of AI enthusiasts who just don’t like Trump. At best, it’s misguided. At worst, it’s plain insincere.
They encourage you to use AI from Google and Anthropic, two companies which are evil like OpenAI.
Alternate corporate options include Gemini from Google and Claude from Anthropic.
People think ChatGPT is the only chatbot in the game… It’s time to change that.
For those that don’t know Anthropic’s biggest investor is Amazon. They’re not some unknown tech company.
By people my ass…
Jesus man I’m so fucking tired
Good god, I don’t get this. That doesn’t even look good.
Jesus Christ, how stupid can you be?
Oh the irony
if you really want to hurt them use a free account and keep on asking to make you innane pictures and stuff. I mean it will waste energy though but it will cost them money.
not just chatgpt.
Stop using Amazon, Meta products, Netflix, Spotify, etc.
All of these massive corporations are actively making life worse for people, and it will only get worse and worse as people continue to stay subscribed.
The only option is to log off and find an alternative.
Apparently, they just took somebody else’s idea and made it all about ChatGPT:
QuitGPT is in the mold of Galloway’s own recently launched campaign, Resist and Unsubscribe.
Resist and Unsubscribe encourages you to get away from Google and Amazon, as well as OpenAI. QuitGPT endorses both (Google directly, Amazon indirectly).
Resist and Unsubscribe is a holistic project; QuitGPT cuts out everything except for one product.
Resist and Unsubscribe doesn’t inadvertently promote a single product; QuitGPT practically functions as a sneaky advertising campaign (kind of like how Larry David said he wouldn’t invest in FTX).
It seems pretty clear which project is better, even if I don’t agree with everything the guy behind it said:
Galloway argued that the best way to stop ICE was to persuade people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions.
I don’t think voting with your dollars will make a huge difference when every ChatGPT subscription costs OpenAI money, but go off I guess
Google ?
Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter, Nvidia, Nestle…
… in fact, forget buying altogether.
Yep, should go without saying! I didn’t list every company but there are plenty more who belong there.
Or better yet Unsubscribe but dont stop using ths service, if enough go from paying customer to wasteful freeloader they will lose even more.
Not sure if it works like that.
Just from using their platform you’re giving them value, at least in the form of data.
Not to mention, LLMs are very resource intensive to run. They slurp up obscene amounts of electricity and water. That’s kind of a problem for a planet that’s already getting boiled.
One seahorse emoji a day.
