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With RAM prices and other computer components increasing so much in price it made me think about who is impacted by this.

Gamers and PC enthusiasts in particular are going to be hit hard by this (but anyone who needs a computer or smartphone or even other devices is in fact impacted) so I believe this should be leveraged to the maximum extent possible.

The same could be said of anyone who isn't a Trump bootlicker because OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave $25 million to Trump and it needs to be a decision he must very deeply regret.

Also artists have long not liked OpenAI.

I hope this thread could serve as a way to brainstorm finding groups of people who would be most upset at OpenAI then turning that anger into action and ultimately making as much of an impact as possible. Does anyone have any ideas they'd like to share? I can say for myself finding out about the Trump donation made me personally very angry at OpenAI for doing that. Other groups of people would have their own reasons like being upset their computer is a lot more expensive.

I think no matter what group the conclusion is always the same. Cancel your ChatGPT, Copilot and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Groups most angered by OpenAI which would be a very broad coalition all with the same goal could really propel this forward.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can tell you what OpenAI is most afraid of: open weights models.

They’re pitched as dumb tools, cheap as dirt utilities, not transcendental chatbots like Altman preaches. If all these companies figure out scaling transformers up infinitely doesn’t work (because it doesn’t), and that tiny, ethically trained LLMs work just fine for their little business automation pipelines, OpenAI’s whole house of cards falls apart.

You can’t make trillions off a race to the bottom.

Pick your poison. IBM granite, Z AI, Mistral, Cerebras API; just get commercial LLM users on something other than OpenAI. That’s what hurts them the most. Because every little conversion builds critical mass towards the “wait, we don’t have to use OpenAI?” avalanche.


Other than that, spread that people in the industry hate Sam Altman. TSMC, for example, allegedly labeled him as a “podcast bro” when it came to them with some nutty plan.