Every single time you "but it's useful" consult an LLM, you put money in the hands of people who do not believe that every child deserves food, shelter, and clothing.
EVERY SINGLE TIME.
So stop comin' at me with the "but it's useful".
AM I WRONG!?!?
G'ahead. Prove me wrong.
I been wrong before.
Shit-talk me.
Find me the "AI" operation that loves and cares for children.
I'M RIGHT FUCKING HERE.
Correct me.
Sooooo, is that your take? GenAI wrote my code, made my fake photos, wrote my email, it's *so* helpful to me, and fuck all the children.
Aug 10, 2026, 7:47 AM@GeePawHill
They're losing money. If you have access, you should max out your tokens to bankrupt them. Prove me wrong.
@hakona Can't, frankly, believe that your response is about losing money and spending tokens.
I don't follow how a local, "free as in beer" model does that.
We already see that there is no rational connection between "there being a regular business case for it" and "them doing what they do".
Even the subscription prices don't really offset the massive insane "investment" they made.
Heck, the entire thing is so utterly unhinged, implying a rational connection between the real world and what "THEY" do, actually requires some supportive arguments. (1/2?)
Like, for an action to have a rational consequence, we require that the entire thing is rational in the first place.
Does that make sense?
If we were talking about rare metals, electronics components, labor standards and the global economy, *there* is a chain of interactions and a system of conflicting interests: wanting things to be cheap and labor conditions to be good. That's a system and we can "tip the scale".
Aug 10, 2026, 8:15 AM@GeePawHill That's far from the worst things these horrible parasites do.
@yora Mmmm. That's your take.
Aug 10, 2026, 8:44 AM@GeePawHill Having fucked up believes and complete lack of empathy is nothing compared to the death and destruction they actually cause.
@GeePawHill The whole thing isn't even on AI/LLM, that from a technical standpoint could be simply debated on how bad they perform.
It's that feeling when you cite an historical, brutal dictatorship, that brought millions of deaths, and there's someone saying "but they did good things too".
Isn't it actually the other way around? Those who use the service generate high costs for the operators.
(At least when we're talking about free access models. Anyone who's foolish enough to pay money for an LLM is probably beyond the reach of this line of reasoning anyway.)
So free users actively burn capital rather than offset it.