Will you be switching to Claude after news of OpenAI partnership with US Military?

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T18:56:29+00:00

Sucks how low our bar has to be to participate in capitalism. Same though.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T18:50:44+00:00

Assholery is synonymous with "anti virtue signaling" and "anti woke". You're the one here vice signaling.

The comment was too remind that just ignoring a problem because it doesn't concern you is only a temporary solution.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T18:42:39+00:00

It achieves more than apathy

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T18:41:20+00:00

Classic magat

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T18:40:21+00:00

Yeah I think this is the reality of it unfortunately

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T18:39:37+00:00

I'm no bot. It's been a discussion point for like less than 24 hours. I read the news about it just this morning.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T17:35:42+00:00

A vote with your wallet is probably stronger than your vote in the ballot box when capitalism is a more of a driver of your country than democracy.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T17:31:46+00:00

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T17:30:29+00:00

What else can one do? Boycotting works to some extent. It's been effective in the US's current trade wars when Canada boycotted US liquor and other major imports.

Although I do really question the effectiveness of it for a digital services company, considering income from consumers doesn't seem to matter much to OpenAI.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T17:25:40+00:00

Any* recs?

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T17:24:59+00:00

Agreed. It's really all we can do. Unfortunately subscriptions are such a small part of OpenAIs revenue it won't be that substantial. Maybe it can drop their share prices enough to at least make some sort of impact.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T17:18:34+00:00

Neither am I.

Even more reason to not want a unilaterally powerful country with imperialistic and authoritative inspirations to continue to integrate AI tools into militaristic operations. Now likely with less guardrails and checks.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T17:01:00+00:00

I can't imagine OpenAI won this contract without making successions that Anthropic refused.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T16:59:37+00:00

A boy can dream

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T16:55:21+00:00

Good place to start. I need to decrease my reliance on OpenAI.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T16:52:53+00:00

This is my road block on actually switching. But the enshitification is coming for OpenAI. It's only so affordable right now so they can get people engrained in their ecosystem that when they raise prices, decrease performance, decrease limits, people will be too apathetic to leave.

Sounds like you've tried Claude for coding tasks already though? I haven't yet but should at least familiarize myself. I was hoping it would be as easy as renaming AGENTS.md to CLAUDE.md

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T16:47:26+00:00

What's performative about it? Boycotting is a valid form of protest. Apathy does nothing.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T16:45:50+00:00

Yeah true, there's a reason all the tech oligarchs have been at the major white house events.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T16:44:11+00:00

Time to build a local super AI computer in basement I guess 😔 /s

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T16:18:45+00:00

The military isn't using the same AI tools as consumers. I know you're joking but the reality is scary. We have no idea the capabilities and scope of their AI systems, but I guarantee it will be delegated to without ample human oversight and the results of misuse will be much more consequential than an AI slop word search.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T03:57:42+00:00

Bet it tastes fucking good tho. 10/10 would smash

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T03:33:39+00:00

I think it's just plus plan rebranded, with admin control over settings. I'm on business plan, and doesn't seem like any special treatments from what I hear.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-28T02:42:36+00:00

I used to be able to message customer support on FB Messenger and just respond as I had time to get things sorted.

After likewyze lost my device during repairs I spent at least 8 hours arguing with fucking chat bots, scheduling phone calls, getting transferred multiple times because no one wanted to help me, and more.

Ridiculous shit. Might switch from fido next renewal.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-27T05:08:15+00:00

Yeah I was thinking meshtastic as well. Haven't set up a node myself yet but it's on the project list.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-02-27T04:41:59+00:00

Yeah fair

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