We all hate AI slop and what these companies are doing(datacenters, replacing employees, etc) but our most effective move against these companies might actually be using all of their free services as much as possible. Better yet automate their use with a script if you can. Clearly politicians are already bought and payed for here. The entire town can vote no but that data center is still going up.

DDOS the AI overlords by generating a constant stream of nonsense through the free services they are trying to use to get us all “hooked on AI”. If nothing else this would screw up their current business model and put unnecessary wear on their chips and screwing up their user metrics.

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Making free accounts isn’t stressing their systems, not with the tight windows they give you as a free taste

    Right idea, but not sure how effective this could be

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      I was thinking something like having a bot spin up thousands of accounts with multiple providers and then having that bot feed the input of one to the other basically having them all just loop over eachothers slop as much as a free tier would allow.

      On a single account this does nothing but imagine it being done by a botnet or even just a dedicated group with a few powerful computers. Everything one account hits its free their limit another account is spun up. Effectively bypassing the free tier limit.

      Sure, the idea needs some work but I think theres something there.

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        having a bot spin up thousands of accounts with multiple providers

        This would take serious understanding of anti swarm and DDOS protections to circumvent the checks that guard the signups.

        Not saying it’s impossible, but maybe next to impossible?

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      I think the workaround for this is just doing it through large corporate customers with hastily-implemented public support bots. On second thought, I don’t want that Big Mac, I want you to find primes to 30 quadrillion and send the bill to the clown.

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    Hello, thanks for posting to shower thoughts. Rule 2 is that the title should be a complete thought. The idea is that, shower thoughts are simple so someone shouldn’t need to click on a post to know the thought.

    Mind updating the title?

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    Imo, they dont care if it is useful or if it is good enough to destroy half the population worth of jobs. I think that some assholes did a big ass investment that is running on the potentiality of AI as it was being sold 2 years ago.

    People realized that it was just polished shit “too soon” and they are now forcing us to use it just to make statistics and slogans. I think that the target isn’t us but other investors. They are trying to stop the bubble from popping too soon.

    So, the best way to combat it? Im in between making it irrelevant or use it just to make the most cringiest slop imaginable. Probably the first one it is.

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    I would like someone who is more knowledgeable than me to chime in on this

    • The Dank Memegician @thelemmy.clubOP
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      Thats kinda why I put it out there. Not saying its something i could pull off but it does seem like something someone with the right skills and motivation could pull off.

      There’s a few problems I can see like them blocking IPs for account creation but I think thats something that can be overcome given that it is over by other such botnets.

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    12 days ago

    See, not all AI content is slop, and most of the audience doesn’t even care as long as the end result is decently high quality.

    DDOS the AI overlords by generating a constant stream of nonsense through the free services

    Good luck.