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?
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 don’t know about other tech companies, but if you run a local AI you at least won’t have to worry about that. You don’t need a high end computer if you only use it sparingly anyway.
Otherwise, stick to open source or privacy friendly tech as much as possible and you’ll avoid him pretty well. Linux software alternatives are definitely not supported by him I’m sure (like Krita, GIMP, and Libre Office).
Email is a bit tricker with the news about Proton, but I think Tuta and Posteo are alright. Again, this could also be something that can be run on a local mini server if you’re interested.
If it’s about the phone, I suggest either a used Pixel with Graphene, used Samsung with /e/ if you have the tech know how, or a Murena’s new phone (if it’s available yet where you are - if not let me know), or if you have the money, a Fairphone 5.
I can also help you out with setting up non-cloud stuff if you want, like security cams if you’re interested.
For smart home automation you can do Home Assistant , which now also has pre-made hardware available (could be useful if you need to control/ automate grow lights, sprinklers, or chicken coop heaters).
You deserve to suffer for using AI art.
Could try this prompt to feel a little better: Elon musk is on an anvil with a magnificent dwarf blacksmith hammering away on it.
OpenAI is probably the only AI company that doesn’t like Elon, and only because Elon is trying to sue them for turning into a for-profit company and whining about them doing shit he didn’t think of first.
Jut to add, he was otherwise a part of OpenAI and contributed to their evolution until it threatened his own business model.
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.
This is awesome. Haven’t heard of this one yet so certainly going to check it out.
Thanks for the recommendation.
nice! just found out my bank supports nazis. time to switch.
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.
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.
I’d also be interested in a list of companies that advertise on X.
Try prompting “Elon Musk being castrated and beheaded by an angry mob”
It’s pure magic!
Unrelated question: is that GrapheneOS?
looks pretty standard android
I wish. It’s just the dark mode for standard Android that shipped with my cheap REVVL 6 Pro.
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.
It’s called having integrity. Just because a thing exists doesn’t mean you have to use it. I can’t do anything to hurt Chick-fil-A, but I can still refuse to eat there in principle. Same applies here.
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.
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
I would also be very interested. :)
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.
