Subscriptions? You idiots are paying for this shit?
Businesses do and try to get employees to use it… Stupid
Well the fucked up part is businesses also want to see how well their “investment” AI is doing, which means tracking how much employees use the AI and other cooked up metrics. You can’t get away from it no matter how irritating it makes your job and life.
Its infuriating because now every single meeting is “BLARGH HOW CAN WE MAKE DA AI DO THIS? HOW CAN WE UTILIZE THE AI???!!!”
makes me want to scream.
All the time at work. Free tier and paid. Translate shit from foreign customers. Extract text from screen shots. There’s lots of uses, just like any other tool. But it’s a tool, it’s not fucking magic or the devil. Just a tool.
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.
Honestly, people are probably going to start using it much less once they put in ads on the the low and free tiers.
They’re realizing they can’t turn profit over expenses when the VC money dries up without jacking price.
Same shit different fad. Offshoring was all the rage until the demand meant they started charging more, the quality went down, and the reality of cross-timezone management became obvious. Cloud was all the rage until the prices went up from demand and also kept running into outages, and now some companies are “re-inhousing” their infrastructure.
Cant’ wait till they realize they also can’t deliver at regular clip with only half the workers. Wont’ be soon enough, alas.
If you thought the banks were too big to fail, get ready for this fucking bailout
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.
Also, why paying for AI? You can use it for free, and when you finish your free daily limit, you just switch to another AI: Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Le Chat, DeepSeek… rinse and repeat.
People pay for this shit?
It blows my mind people actually subscribe to mostly wrong answers.
I’ve never used it. I play around with a local installation sometimes, that’s the extent of my experience with AI.
The point is we can’t compete with this saas ai products with our local models that runs on our poor homeservers. Affording a subscription is way more cheaper in shorter term.
this won’t be true anymore when the AI bubble bursts
In my perspective as a cs graduate, it’ll only have a decline instead of a pop. We’ve already exceeded the point of no return.
Never paid for it, but I would use it here and there. Never again, account deleted.
You can continue using it for free, it makes cost for them ;)
Well, I like that, but I also like the idea of not helping them train their model
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.
I dont give them any valuable information about me and I never pay. I also only use it in the browser and not even that often
I just use Chinese AI atp. Deepseek and Kimi.
Glm also?
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
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.
All these boycotts I can’t join since I never paid for them in the first place 😢
You were just boycotting before it was cool.
