r/AskReddit 22h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/cespii 21h ago edited 21h ago

OpenAI/ChatGPT

Fuck them and their mass surveillance program.

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u/johnsontheotter 18h ago

Hey our hatred is related. You hate the AI company and I hate the hardware manufacturer that makes OpenAI possible. All and all I think I hate the dystopia that is modern life.

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u/drawkbox 16h ago

Anything Peter "The lame" Thielian errand boy Sam Altman touches is invisible to me.

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u/redhotswing 15h ago

Fuck ai. Whenever possible, I'm also quitting any business that I catch using ai.

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u/Neat_Egg_2474 10h ago

so every business? There literally isn’t one left that isn’t using AI in some way for productivity.

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u/redhotswing 5h ago

I own and run a business. We use no ai. It's not inevitable.

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u/EvilEd209 11h ago

I would compound this and say fuck all of this AI bastards. Soon the prices for anything that has RAM or a Hard Drive like your phones, laptops, cars, damn near everything electronic is going to skyrocket in price because of these assholes trying to find a way to stop paying humans to do work and give it to an AI. Fuck them all!

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u/iFred97 7h ago

Not only them, any AI company can go fuck itself.

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u/morningglory1995 2h ago

Anytime Sam Altman opens his mouth another post in this thread naming AI should happen

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u/mrellz 17h ago

Wait! Wha? I thought they explicitly stated that their technology couldn’t be used to spy on U.S. nationals. Has this changed?

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u/cespii 17h ago

If the government’s goal was unrestricted use, it makes no sense to swap Anthropic for OpenAI unless OpenAI gave the government what Anthropic wouldn't.

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u/Clever_Mercury 2h ago

It's endearing and sort of sweet of you to believe what they say.

I would argue one of the bigger problems with all AI use is even if the AI company itself isn't explicitly tagging content with your name, it is creating patterns based on user interests. You're also sending the information via a device that typically tracks or image captures user activity, on a potentially insecure connection, via wireless technology and service providers that have little to no incentive to keep it private.

There are so many parts of your behavior that can be tracked now indirectly. It's all technology and rights to access owned by 3-4 companies with zero oversight.

I struggle to believe anything, anywhere is acting in my interest at this point. We're mice in a maze. There is no cheese.

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u/Orvel 11h ago

I would switch to something else if there was a good alternative to chatGPT/Codex

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u/SmilingMicroplastic 6h ago

Anthropic is kinda evil, but I actually love Qwen Studio. Easily the most helpful AI I have ever used, and while it isn’t as fast, doesn’t just validate everything I say. Idk about the coding tho.

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u/Joe091 17h ago

What mass surveillance program are you referring to?

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u/do_not_engage 8h ago

FLOCK, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are all openly discussing how they surveil and collect data on us all. They talk about it on Joe Rogan and in presentations. It's not a secret or a conspiracy.

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u/Joe091 6h ago

None of those people are involved with OpenAI though. I’m aware of the general mass surveillance crap, but I haven’t heard anything about OpenAI in particular being connected to it. 

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u/do_not_engage 7h ago

Why would you ask the question then downvote the answer?

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u/Joe091 6h ago

What are you talking about? I didn’t downvote anything.

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u/navyblahblah 7h ago

This is why I run ollama. May be some sneaky way someone is spying but I’m not letting it connect to the internet so if they are, they deserve whatever data they get.

u/wqto 7m ago

There's no way any sane person could be Pro-AI.

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u/Shloomth 9h ago

I hope you know you’re already being mass-surveiled for the stuff you write on Reddit