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A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
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muimota@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
r4venw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This is absurd. They couldn’t spare the 3 seconds it takes to go to fontawesome to find these icons??
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The whole website was probably built by agentic AI.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d wager the entire page was vibe coded.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Jesus man I’m so fucking tired
XLE@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For those that don’t know Anthropic’s biggest investor is Amazon. They’re not some unknown tech company.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That looks like someone messed up the vector graphic icons. It doesn’t look like an AI problem.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 weeks ago
Oh the irony
artyom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Jesus Christ, how stupid can you be?
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Good god, I don’t get this. That doesn’t even look good.
unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Off with their heads! GO self-hosted, go local… toss the rest in the trash can before this crap gets a foothold and fully enshitifies
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
LLMs are already shit. Going local is still burning the world just to run a glorified text production machine
suspicious_hyperlink@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Having just finished getting an entire front end for my website, I disagree. A few years ago I would offshore this job to some third-world country devs. Now, AI can do the same thing, for cents, without having to wait for a few days for the initial results and another day or two for each revision needed
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Do local LLMs really consume much more than a task like, playing a video game?
ch00f@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
GO self-hosted,
So yours and another comment I saw today got me to dust off an old docker container I was playing with a few months ago to run deepseek-r1:8b on my server’s Intel A750 GPU with 8gb of VRAM. Not exactly top-of-the-line, but not bad.
I knew it would be slow and not as good as ChatGPT or whatever which I guess I can live with. I did ask it to write some example Rust code today which I hadn’t even thought to try and it worked.
But I also asked it to describe the characters in a popular TV show, and it got a ton of details wrong.
8b is the highest number of parameters I can run on my card. How do you propose someone in my situation run an LLM locally? Can you suggest some better models?
lexiw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You are playing with ancient stuff that wasn’t even good at release. Try these:
A 4b model performing like a 30b model: huggingface.co/Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.1-3B
Google open source version of Gemini: huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-4b-it
SirHaxalot@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
Honestly you pretty much don’t. Llama are insanely expensive to run as most of the model improvements will come from simply growing the model. It’s not realistic to run LLMs locally and compete with the hosted ones, it pretty much requires the economics of scale. Even if you invest in a 5090 you’re going to be behind the purpose made GPUs with 80GB VRAM.
Maybe it could work for some use cases but I rather just don’t use AI.
Mika@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
It goes down to number of vram / unified ram you have. There is no magic to make 8b perform like top tier subscription based LLMs (likely in 500b+ range, wouldn’t be surprised if trillions).
If you can get to 32b / 80b models, that’s where magic starts to happen.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Going local is taxing on your hardware that is extremely expensive to replace. Hell, it could soon become almost impossible to replace. I genuinely don‘t recommend it.
Even if you HAVE to use LLMs for some reason, there are free alternatives right now that let Silicon Valley bleed money and they‘re quickly running out of it.
Cancelling any paid subscription probably hurts them more than anything else.
Mika@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
If LLM is tied to making you productive, going local is about controlling the means of production.
You aren’t supposed to run it on machine you work on anyway, do a server and send requests.
Hubi@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It’s not really taxing on your hardware unless you load and unload huge models all day or if your cooling is insufficient.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
GO self-hosted, go local
Last I checked it costed ~$6000 to run a high end LLM at terrible speeds and that was before the RAM price hike. And at the rate things are changing it might be obsolete in a few year. And I don’t have that much money either.
I’m going to stick with the free OpenCode Zen models for now and maybe switch to OpenCode Black or Synthetic or whatever when they stop being available and use the open weight models there.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would, if I found even a remotely good usecase for LLMs. Would be useful for contextual search on a bunch of API documentation and books on algorithms, but I don’t want a sychophantic “copilot” or “assistant”, that does job so bad I would be fired for, all while being called ableist slurs and getting blacklisted from the industry.
unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I only have a need for RAG and it works well, wouldn’t say I need w copilot either. Everyone probably has some use case for this stuff but it’s gonna be different for everyone, the basic llm conversation model it’s really just a stepped up interactive Google
Paddy66@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
While people are at it they could quit ALL big tech. Here’s our site (that was *not *AI generated!):
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html
(Please share with your friends and family - we have zero marketing budget - thank you!)
canofcam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Google ?
msage@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter, Nvidia, Nestle…
… in fact, forget buying altogether.
canofcam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep, should go without saying! I didn’t list every company but there are plenty more who belong there.
XLE@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Subscriptions? You idiots are paying for this shit?
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Businesses do and try to get employees to use it… Stupid
sfgifz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unsubscribe from all the things.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Except my VPN. You don’t need to know where I live.
queueBenSis@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
but be careful of which VPN provider you’re using. Mulvad is a good option
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I just unsubscribed from my landlord
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People pay for subscription to ask AI?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Or worse: have it make images that they then post online
mynona@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The piss filter burns so badly. If people post those, I appreciate them volunteering to be blocked.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
eletes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If you thought the banks were too big to fail, get ready for this fucking bailout
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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”.
Jeremyward@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
People pay for this shit?
Suavevillain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Gatsby@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
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.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Why would anyone subscribe? LLMs rarely are actually helpful and I really tried, as I’m a damn tech-nerd for decades. But most of the time it just takes longer to get worse results than just doing it yourself.
I would not pay 1 buck annually for this. And surely not 30 a month
stressballs@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Sorry but if you can’t make LLMs useful there is something wrong with you. The problwm with this whole system is that it’s very helpful and valuable to the average person, as well as experts.
I’m sorry I wish you were correct but this narrative that LLMs don’t work is false and bourne out of lack of experience or just flat out lies.
Lies will not defeat our very powerful opponents here, nor their massive and expensive weapons.
Pretending the enemy is useless when the opposite is true is just leaving yourself and your allies unprepared.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I didn’t say the don’t work. They’re just mainly useless. For coding? Nice for quick prototyping, seeking alternate approaches or such. Real code? Rarely working and in the end you spend more time fixing stuff than it initially saved.
For everyday research? It’s helpful sometimes, but mostly plain wrong. That one sure isn’t inherent of LLM but the data it feeds on.
For what it’s great is translations, summarizing stuff or a nicer web search. And my own locally run for the smart home. For that it’s a blast. Like “close gate, open front door, turn on all lights at 50% in a lush shade of green, and turn on the coffee machine”. Absolutely awesome.
But paying for that? And even like 30 moneyz? No way. Don’t get me wrong, I fucking love all tech and LLMs are kinda a dream coming true. But it’s still not really there. My last session with Claude ended in the “AI” giving up and asking ME how I solved it. Only to then admit my answer would be useless as it is forgotten anyway after that chat 😁
I have no political agenda and surely don’t lack experience. I don’t even see LLM as an enemy. I wish it was actually intelligent and really helpful/timesaving more than 50% of the time.
Not questioning generative powers for video or image or sound. They’re awesome there and totally timesaving and extremely helpful.
Darkmoon_AU@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Truth. I don’t support US tech either but their LLMs are state of the art and VERY useful… No point lying about it. I’m supporting Mistral.ai instead now. Their model is good enough for my use cases, and I’m hoping their recent reported uptick in users like myself helps fund the research and hardware to make them even more competitive.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They are a tool, but some people use it as a replacement for actual knowledge, and take it as gospel. Its going to create a generation of idiots
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re extremely helpful, just not at a professional level. They can help a student proof read an essay or a content creator come up with a script, but they can’t help you code an app from scratch or give you a medical diagnosis.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Didn’t say they’re 100% useless. They’re just 90% useless to me and 10% super helpful. Surely depends on what you actually want from them. But I couldn’t think of one area where i might seriously consider dishing 30 bucks a month out for an LLM. Except I’d do tons of translations every day or your proofreading. But for that, the free tiers would already be enough.
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
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.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
You can subscribe to chatGPT?
Dojan@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Yes. I think it’s like $20 a month.
capuccino@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
For coding $280/mo is peanuts compared to how much the Claude API costs
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It is 20 in the US
Azrael@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I’ve been a long time user and subscriber of ChatGPT plus. It has helped me tremendously and I probably wouldn’t be where I am without it.
I canceled mt subscription recently. I won’t continue to give money to ClosedAI. There are alternatives.
Sam Altman can burn in hell.
innermachine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mind if I ask how it’s helped you along? My lil bro used it to do basically all of his college work LMFAO. He also uses ai screening tools to make sure he changes shit enough that the professor doesn’t catch it, well one day he screened a assignment from the professor and it was flagged as AI produced LMFAO
Azrael@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I personally use AI to help me with my work. I used to work in an IT repair facility where I would use an LLM to help me troubleshoot problems. For example if a computer won’t turn on and the motherboard is flashing and beeping, asking an LLM is 10x faster than having to use the internet to hunt for a user manual of one specific model of computer from 40 years ago, made by a brand which no longer exists.
Now I work in Computer Games Development after getting my degree. AI is extremely useful for helping me come up with ideas, making prototypes, and even generating small amounts of code in C++ and C#, which is what I mainly use. Games Dev isn’t difficult. I can do it myself. But it can be very tedious. That’s why AI is so helpful.
As for what your little brother does, i’ve experienced that. People generating code and having no idea what it does. It might help you pass your subjects in school, but it’s only gonna screw you over in the long run.
I don’t mind people using AI to help them with their work as long as they don’t depend on it.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have memory issues (it’s a brain issue) and struggle to do some basic things, but higher order thinking is natural for me. So ChatGPT does the things I struggle with, I review it and then use that information for my bigger goals. I got a lot done last year because of chatgpt, and rn I’m on the last leg of the project. I spent a few years trying to complete the project alone and didn’t get far because of the memory issues.
How ai is used is dependent on the user itself. Some people just don’t want to put effort like your brother, some people have disabilities or other issues that prevent them from doing bigger things they’re otherwise capable of doing.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For honesty, recent example from me:
I bought about a dozen epub comics. They were formatted with a hardcoded 600x450 width or so, maybe expecting a particular device. Having recently worked with epubs to format my own (word) book, I knew the format, and basically wanted to use Python standard library tools to unzip them, rip out some useless sizing/styling code (from hundreds of XHTML files), and zip them back up.
I hadn’t used Python professionally in a few years, so this was an annoying back and forth to work out the process and remind myself of syntax, especially considering this was something I was just doing for a few of my own books. Instead, taking every important piece of this puzzle/process I’d researched, I instead described the problem to ChatGPT, specifically pointing it to the Python standard libraries I wanted to use. It gave me a one-page program that was mostly complete and I only needed to change in a few areas.
I don’t think I’d ever pay money to AIs for a variety of reasons. I take that assistance as it comes, and could live without it.
gravitas@pie.gravitywell.xyz 2 weeks ago
Or better yet Unsubscribe but dont stop using ths service, if enough go from paying customer to wasteful freeloader they will lose even more.
sefra1@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Not sure if it works like that.
Just from using their platform you’re giving them value, at least in the form of data.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What we need to do then is poison the well and provide bad training data.
biofaust@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One seahorse emoji a day.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It blows my mind people actually subscribe to mostly wrong answers.
Bwaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I kinda wish I’d been using it so I could quit!
epicshepich@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
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.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry but thinking of a shitty chatbot as your “mentor” is absolute brainrot.
sircac@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Any reference to Trump’s donors to back that Gepeto is the biggest one? I would like to see the top 10 or 100 list…
emmy67@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Quit? Only a fool would waste their time on it.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve never used it. I play around with a local installation sometimes, that’s the extent of my experience with AI.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Boycotting ChatGPT. Have to send a message on my iPhone to my friend about it. And then I need to check my emails on my Windows computer. But I am glad I am boycotting ChatGPT.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Wait. Normal people who use chatgpt just for basic questions are paying for it?
atropa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Great job
stressballs@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It might be helpful to the movement if memes kike this weren’t blatantly untrue.
Mika@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Corporate would still use it 😒
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
All these boycotts I can’t join since I never paid for them in the first place 😢
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
You were just boycotting before it was cool.