[quote] AI companies externalizing costs
I wanted to highlight a post by Drew DeVault about the absolutely massive assault these AI companies are unleashing on the people and projects we cherish, causing outages, direct financial harm, stress, and a worse user experience due to mitigation measures.
The full post is here and and absolutely worth reading, but I wanted to especially highlight this:
“Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers too lazy to design their software properly or Silicon Valley ripping off all the data they can get their hands on at everyone else’s expense… I am sick and tired of having all of these costs externalized directly into my fucking face. Do something productive for society or get the hell away from my servers. Put all of those billions and billions of dollars towards the common good before sysadmins collectively start a revolution to do it for you.
Please stop legitimizing LLMs or AI image generators or GitHub Copilot or any of this garbage. I am begging you to stop using them, stop talking about them, stop making new ones, just stop. If blasting CO2 into the air and ruining all of our freshwater and traumatizing cheap laborers and making every sysadmin you know miserable and ripping off code and books and art at scale and ruining our fucking democracy isn’t enough for you to leave this shit alone, what is?”
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Published 25 Mar, 2025