One of my favorite AI image apps is promoting Elon Musk today. Have uninstalled and left a 1 star review explaining why. Is there a site or someplace where people are keeping track of all these companies that are supporting the new Nazis?
One of my favorite AI image apps
I get it. I haven't even used that app in 3 months or so. (And that was to show some basic examples of my idea to a tattoo artist who was paid to make an original design based off my concept.)
The reality is that AI isn't going away. So rather than just give up, I'd rather find alternatives to the people that are the worst of a not so great thing.
Plus my question isn't which AI companies support Musk. I'm looking for a list of anyone that is promoting the hate and oppression that is quickly becoming acceptable.
The issue with AI isn't the tool, but the ethics of its creation (and the greed of those trying to put it in anything and everything, but that's another matter), and this is so often lost in these conversations. Like pro-lifers arguing with women's rights activists. Two completely different concepts being argued past each other. Your use case is exactly the kind of thing that AI could be great for - if it wasn't made by stealing the work of others.
That out of the way, I think you're going to have to look for lists of campaign donators, shareholders in companies Musk owns, and as somebody else said, those rolling back DEI programs and the like.
It'll probably be easier to find lists of which companies oppose the horrors, honestly.
Consider not having an AI app. They're awful for the environment and are mostly going to be run by Musk simps anyhow.
As for an alternative, set up stable diffusion with a web based frontend on a PC and access remotely. It'll draw the same power as a videogame for 5-60 seconds per image. At least this way you're not paying someone to use electricity on your behalf.
I do like this idea to address AI specifically and it's in my plans once I build myself a better solar setup. I don't quite produce enough energy to run much beyond a tablet and a cell phone.
My first goals are to get enough power to be able to run HomeAssistant and dedicated media server so I can step further away from streaming platforms. I'm hoping that AI is a bit more refined by the time I'm ready to implement it.
How?
I don't have a complete walkthrough for you, but I'm considering doing this with comfyui and tailscale. searching for details on those should at give you a place to start!
I don't use AI really. Hell I barely use electricity in my day to day life. (Spent the previous 3 years living off-grid and haven't fully adjusted to living in a wired home yet.)
I'm more interested in making sure the people who don't deserve my support don't get it. I already stopped supporting the meat industry (99% vegetarian for 25+ years). I dropped Nestle back in the 90s as well. I already know which major corporations and brands to avoid.
I just am looking for something that focuses on our current issues.
I'm curious -- what's the remaining 1% not-vegetarian part?
I bet it's bacon. The siren song of sizzling bacon always drags me away from vegetarianism in the end.
I will when someone finally invents a search engine that doesn't suck.
Just look for all the companies that roll back their DEI initiatives
Oh yes. I've been paying attention to those as well and theys are certainly on my no support list. But most of them were already ones I avoid. It is a good suggestion though. Thanks.
I was listening to an audio book the other day and it mentioned Elon Musk and Kanye West unironically within three sentences of each other. The book was written in 2018, but still pretty cringe. I refunded today, the book was already pretty ick to begin with and those two put it over the top.
What's the book?
It was Book 2 of the Extinction series called Extinction Countdown by James D Prescott. The whole series was available for 1 credit so I thought I gave it a try.
Book 1 was very cliche and over the top, but enjoyable enough. Kinda dumb and predictable but good enough. Pretty short as well, so for a credit per book it would have been too expensive. However Book 2 doubled down on all the bad parts of Book 1 and turned the cringe to 11.
It said: "If even 10% of the predictions made by Elon Musk on Ai are true..." I rolled my eyes so hard I think I hurt myself. Then three sentences later they went on about Kanye West's new fashion line. So I turned it off for then, thought about it today and refunded. The author probably meant well, but oof.
Try "Elon musk getting his balls smashed with a smithing hammer on an anvil" instead
I have looked all over the internets and found nothing. You probably need to compile this yourself. I do believe Luigi has a list, but he’s unavailable at the moment
Ai by definition scrapes up data from everywhere left and right for its dataset. If Elon is gonna fuck around a lot during his great replacement tour, there's gonna be a lot of data in these banks with his name on it
I guess I shouldn't be surprised if AI based software used advertising created by AI that just grabbed top recent search terms.
But if they can't keep their software from promoting oppression and hatred, then I have no interest in it, AI or not.
I would also be very interested. :)
Maybe stop using AI bullshit?
This isn't really about AI, I'm more interested in dropping any company that wants to pick the side of oppression.
I do understand your point, just not an answer to my actual question.
My apologies. My reply wasn't helpful. If you don't mind I'd like to try again:
I wouldn't even bother with this exercise considering any large tech company is now pandering to the conservatives, and to Elon. Unless you want to give up literally all tech, I wouldn't bother. By design every company is selfish and I'm sure most CEOs are pieces of shit. Just use whatever services work for you and don't worry about it. If I had to boycott every company that was unethical, I'd have to grow my own food and generate my own electricity. It's just not practical.
If I had to boycott every company that was unethical, I'd have to grow my own food and generate my own electricity. It's just not practical.
It isn't easy. But it is possible. And yes sacrifices have to be made (as I respond using a cell phone because I can't function in society without one). The irony is not lost on me.
But I stopped eating meat that I didn't hunt or raise myself over 25 years ago. I spent years living in the woods using a second hand solar system that barely functioned. I've been growing as much food as I can for over 3 decades.
It is possible. But I don't expect everyone to make the same sacrifices that I have, and I do my best not to judge. But one of the biggest differences you can make in the world around you is who you support and who you give your money to.
Just shrugging your shoulders and saying 'oh well, it's easier to just go with the flow' is the opposite of solving the problem. I don't expect everyone to just live the way I do. But I do push those around me to think about the difference they could make by choosing alternatives.
Having a list of companies that support Musk is something I could use to help leverage others to make the first step in that direction.
Could try this prompt to feel a little better: Elon musk is on an anvil with a magnificent dwarf blacksmith hammering away on it.
I'm douptfull that such a list exists. At least not in a comprehensive form.
I'm sure someone has started.
Places like www.ethicalconsumer.org hae been around for a while. Even back in the early 90s I had a book that helped me avoid the worst companies. Just hoping to find something a little more focused on this new rising oppression.
I guess you could've asked the LLM to generate one before uninstslling as a nice little farewell.
Maybe not that guy specifically, but the Goods Unite Us app is basically a big list of brands and products and which parties they've donated to.
Unrelated question: is that GrapheneOS?
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