We all hate AI slop and what these companies are doing(datacenters, replacing employees, etc) but our most effective move against these companies might actually be using all of their free services as much as possible. Better yet automate their use with a script if you can. Clearly politicians are already bought and payed for here. The entire town can vote no but that data center is still going up.
DDOS the AI overlords by generating a constant stream of nonsense through the free services they are trying to use to get us all “hooked on AI”. If nothing else this would screw up their current business model and put unnecessary wear on their chips and screwing up their user metrics.
Imo, they dont care if it is useful or if it is good enough to destroy half the population worth of jobs. I think that some assholes did a big ass investment that is running on the potentiality of AI as it was being sold 2 years ago.
People realized that it was just polished shit “too soon” and they are now forcing us to use it just to make statistics and slogans. I think that the target isn’t us but other investors. They are trying to stop the bubble from popping too soon.
So, the best way to combat it? Im in between making it irrelevant or use it just to make the most cringiest slop imaginable. Probably the first one it is.
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They will simply stop serving AI for free? Not sure if that will help people quit using AI though.
Making free accounts isn’t stressing their systems, not with the tight windows they give you as a free taste
Right idea, but not sure how effective this could be
I was thinking something like having a bot spin up thousands of accounts with multiple providers and then having that bot feed the input of one to the other basically having them all just loop over eachothers slop as much as a free tier would allow.
On a single account this does nothing but imagine it being done by a botnet or even just a dedicated group with a few powerful computers. Everything one account hits its free their limit another account is spun up. Effectively bypassing the free tier limit.
Sure, the idea needs some work but I think theres something there.
having a bot spin up thousands of accounts with multiple providers
This would take serious understanding of anti swarm and DDOS protections to circumvent the checks that guard the signups.
Not saying it’s impossible, but maybe next to impossible?
I actually think you’re really onto something here
I think the workaround for this is just doing it through large corporate customers with hastily-implemented public support bots. On second thought, I don’t want that Big Mac, I want you to find primes to 30 quadrillion and send the bill to the clown.
That just moves money from McDonald’s to openai
Even that may be useful as it stresses their relationship and thus the business model
I would like someone who is more knowledgeable than me to chime in on this
Thats kinda why I put it out there. Not saying its something i could pull off but it does seem like something someone with the right skills and motivation could pull off.
There’s a few problems I can see like them blocking IPs for account creation but I think thats something that can be overcome given that it is over by other such botnets.
Just a heads up that it’s a felony to make these kind of statements.
At best it’s a conspiracy to commit a crime an at worst it’s the crime itself, DDoS.
So I hope you used a good VPN when you posted this.
EDIT: Everyone who downvotes this wants the FBI to find and question OP.
What they are proposing isn’t even an actual DDOS. It’s essentially the “Reddit kiss of Death.” It also would be wholly ineffectual, since free accounts for AI bullshit impose a lot of restrictions and limitations that mean you’re not sucking up their bandwidth.
It is not a crime to coordinate using a free service, though I’m sure it will be the moment it becomes effective
I dont know if it really qualifies as a DDOS seeing as the goal would be more to waist their resources than it would be to “block” their services. Just felt close enough to where the name kinda conveyed the point. I didnt make any statements of intent. Everything ive said here is said hypothetically. There’s no concrete “plans” to do anything so im not worried about it.
Thanks tho.
Edit: Realized re-reading and fixing some typos that might have sounded sarcastic but I mean it, good looking out.
