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Am I the only one bothered by this? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

Either you support small business directly and large corporations indirectly or you just support large corporations directly or you walk out in to the middle of the woods, withdraw from society, and homestead. There is not way to participate in today's society without indirectly supporting corporations.

Sure, feel free to go in to every small shop and argue with them why they should not use AI. But supporting a multiple small shops that use AI for posters is better than giving all your money to Walmart.

This statement is the correct option.

Supporting a small business with an AI Poster is much better than supporting a big corporation.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    Or I find a small shop that doesn't use AI and support them. And if you think they don't exist any more, well, you helped make that happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (3 children)

    You get to pick the hill that you die on, but what I am saying is even if they don't use AI - they still use bookkeeping software, they still file taxes, they still order supplies, they have an email, website and someplace they store documents.

    So AI can be your hill that is fine, but you are still picking the lesser evil in other ways. As you said, "I guess if you don't see your money directly go to OpenAI, it helps you sleep at night better. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say."

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (2 children)

    Took me a bit to realize multiple of my comments are getting lengthy replies by the same person, and that said person isn't either of the commenters I was replying to.

    You, of course, get to pick whatever criteria you want for supporting or not supporting businesses. But I don't appreciate walls of text trying to shame me into supporting AI slop.

    As I've said before (as you've surely seen since you've seemingly scoured this entire thread to find people who disagree with you), there are businesses that don't support big corporations in their operations. And if you can't find any in your local area (presumably the US?), then you can live with the knowledge that your "lesser evil" slop-normalizing rhetoric helped make that happen.

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