I am slowly working on my own app to escape subscription and AI hell. There are not a lot of great cross platform solutions that aren't trying to upsell you, sell your data, or force AI on you. However, I can see more clearly that if you are on the internet, we as people are losing the right to appreciate things made by human beings. You go to instagram... and the photos are AI. You go to facebook... the posts are AI. You go to Unity... the games are made with AI. AI has poisoned the social well.

If I make an app in this ecosystem, will I actually be happy? Maybe there is a thing ot those hoarding non-connected devices for appreciating the work of another human being. You put a CD in a CD player, and you don't have to worry about it spying on you or at some point disappearing because of the loss of rights. It also removes the incentives for dark patterns and flashing ads.

I had someone in a previous thread asking me to not use the word rape for what AI companies are doing to the social space that is the internet. It is an appropriate word in the existing power dynamic, the non-concent of websites like Wikipedia having to pay for the costs and for those having their work stolen. These are strong words but: Rape is an extremely appropriate term for AI where it only doesn't makes sense if you are part of the people doing the raping.

AI is the commodification of human interaction. It destroys it's value, and creates zombies that can't do anything unless they ask their AI chatbot which will give them information that is possibly incorrect but they will never verify it. I mean... at work I have people writing all AI code with no verification and 100% trust. I have a hard time believing that something bad isn't building up and waiting to explode.

What is done with AI is both non-consensual and forced. The only people who don't believe so are the perpetrators, which is why you are anonymous.

AI is also a poster child for the problem of SaaS. Saas while possibly lucrative, creates a twisted relationship with your users. In many cases, the users become the product and there is a perversion of the value of work.

Netflix, Spotify, etc are great. But with the buffet style... people become mentally prohibited form purchasing the music video or other creative product. Furthermore, that savings is taken from the artist hurting the whole ecosystem.

In the case of AI platforms, if you are not paying your inputs are used to train future models without any real warning. What is supposed to be a service is a secret mining tool. That data is also sold to other companies... because people are conditioned not to pay for a service.

The internet needs a rework. Companies need a rework. Laws need a rework. Everything that is being done now is breaking old assumptions about good will of everyone involved. People deserve to be payed for their work. People making things deserve respect.

AI has a tendency to rape public services which often are shared on the internet. I guess y'all using AI don't see it, but normal humans have to constantly look at bot protector screens. It makes my life worse as well as a lot of others.

An idiot compared this to book burning in a previous thread. Someone reading a book does not cause this kind of nuisance to other people. I also highly disbelieve that books drove up the prices of firewood or building materials. Screaming, "This is the future!" while shitting on everyone around you is a recipe for disaster.

Alright, I'll bite and give a real response. Realistic looking responses like yours is why I hate people like you. I don't really expect you to reply to this.

AI is being forced inappropriately into peoples lives with no opt out *everywhere*. Outside of school, no one is forcing you to read a book, which largely separates this from your example of book burning. Books also do not spy on you, either. Or actively break public spaces. Or force you to question if something you received is real.

If I am going to be nice, Silicon Valley and Wallstreet created a huge PR problem for AI of their own making. I do not understand why you would be praising that or sugar coating any of this.

If Europe puts the money into an alternative to Teams, it should go somewhere after a few years. After all, we have seen other video and chat platforms become popular before despite the Teams integration in the Microsoft ecosystem. (Slack...Hipchat...Zoom...)

Market leaders are putting all of their money into AI instead of improving their products. Unless you are one of the ones spouting the mantra of our AI overlords that "we don't need humans anymore" while simultaneously brazenly stealing work while ignoring licenses... I don't think surpassing Teams will be much of a challenge.

At least on macOS, I've increasingly wished I could click the title bar without worrying I am clicking some arbitrary button. Originally title bars intentionally had dead areas so you could easily throw them around. While a compact mode is nice, I feel like it potentially makes this problem worse.

I miss Linux where I could use sloppy focus and disable click to raise so this was a non-issue, but I have been pulled into the mac ecosystem for a while now..

I've considered donating $5 a month to Firefox to suppor the browser, but the only options i see seem to support AI. In japan, you can't pay for relay or the vpn. There is the Mozilla Foundation you can donate to. There is also the option of paying for the MDN pro. As much as people like to pick on FF, people need money to eat and live.

I'm finally not getting advertisements on Slashdot for AI coding tools. Gotta say, repeating, "Kill Sam Altman," has made Slashdot a somewhat better place. I currently see MongoDB and Paessler adverts with no word "AI" in sight.

While the AI companies are punching people in the face, these same people being punched are still behaving like they are interacting with a rational actor. It's time to stop believing that saying, "Please, Stop!" will have any useful effect. If more people said, "Kill Sam Altman!" I think we would see more social progress on this devil.

You can't reasonably double revenue infinitely. At some point gravity takes effect.

Us non AI users have to pay increased electrical, increased water, and increased computer prices among many other induced problems. These fuckers are why you are seeing less physical switch games as an example

And despite the increased costs for non users, which is never calculated like how inflation is, THE NEED MORE MONEY?

If more people said, Kill Sam Altman, I think we would see more social progress on this devil.

If you get enough people chanting, "Kill Sam Altman," you start to get a political response from government representatives and thus change. Join in. Or just continue using AI to burn the planet if that is your thing.

AI makes life worse for those not using it. I get bot checks everywhere. I see fake articles I need to back out of all of the time. I have to question if the photos I receive from loved ones are actual real events. For those who are creative, AI ignores out licenses, steals our work, and trains peons to spout the holy word that we are no longer needed.

I only see this topic becoming more volatile in the future. AI had drowned common sense in the way where the person who is punching others in the face is surprised when they are punched back. We have a fucking right and obligation to be angry.

The only way I see things getting less heated is when we start seeing the severed heads of some of the AI leaders. We are that fucking angry and I do not make up a trivially small group.

Kill Sam Altman. The AI is only mimicking his values and it will cut it off at the source.

Hear me out. When we get this kind of reporting on Bitcoin it leads to the the capitalist tragedy of the commons.

For the energy costs of bitcoin, it would be great to get updates on how much it is shifting us over the 1.5C target for global warming. Actual numbers. Something concrete we can tell our children... like where they are going to need to move in 20 years.

Now of course it is possible to fudge this kind of information. For example, if all bitcoin mining is moved to solar, it takes away solar for other energy uses. Y'know, for things like AI.