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.

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    Just a heads up that it’s a felony to make these kind of statements.

    At best it’s a conspiracy to commit a crime an at worst it’s the crime itself, DDoS.

    So I hope you used a good VPN when you posted this.

    EDIT: Everyone who downvotes this wants the FBI to find and question OP.

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      It is not a crime to coordinate using a free service, though I’m sure it will be the moment it becomes effective

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      What they are proposing isn’t even an actual DDOS. It’s essentially the “Reddit kiss of Death.” It also would be wholly ineffectual, since free accounts for AI bullshit impose a lot of restrictions and limitations that mean you’re not sucking up their bandwidth.

    • The Dank Memegician @thelemmy.clubOP
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      I dont know if it really qualifies as a DDOS seeing as the goal would be more to waist their resources than it would be to “block” their services. Just felt close enough to where the name kinda conveyed the point. I didnt make any statements of intent. Everything ive said here is said hypothetically. There’s no concrete “plans” to do anything so im not worried about it.

      Thanks tho.

      Edit: Realized re-reading and fixing some typos that might have sounded sarcastic but I mean it, good looking out.