I think individual LWers boycotting an AI company/product generally has much less negative effect on the company’s revenue or reputation than negative effect on the user. Use the most powerful AI tools.
Or: offsetting a ChatGPT subscription by donating to AI safety orgs would cost <$1/month.
Lol, my first reaction to this post was “funding Zach Stein-Perlman seems like a much more effective way to slow down OpenAI than to boycott their products”. I am not sure you need funding, but I genuinely think that if someone was thinking about boycotting their Chat-GPT subscription, they should just donate $100 to you, and that would be much better for the world.
It currently looks like the free version of ChatGPT is good enough that I wouldn’t get much benefit from a subscription. I have little idea how long this will remain true.
How much money would (e.g.) LTFF have to get to balance out OpenAI getting $20 (minus the cost to OpenAI of providing ChatGPT Plus — but we can assume the marginal cost is zero), in terms of AI risk? I claim <$1. I’d happily push a button to give LTFF $1 and OpenAI $20.
I think individual LWers boycotting an AI company/product generally has much less negative effect on the company’s revenue or reputation than negative effect on the user. Use the most powerful AI tools.
Or: offsetting a ChatGPT subscription by donating to AI safety orgs would cost <$1/month.
[Belief strongly held but not justified here]
Lol, my first reaction to this post was “funding Zach Stein-Perlman seems like a much more effective way to slow down OpenAI than to boycott their products”. I am not sure you need funding, but I genuinely think that if someone was thinking about boycotting their Chat-GPT subscription, they should just donate $100 to you, and that would be much better for the world.
FWIW, Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released today. Appears to outperform GPT-4o on most (but not all) benchmarks.
It currently looks like the free version of ChatGPT is good enough that I wouldn’t get much benefit from a subscription. I have little idea how long this will remain true.
Yeah, and it’s not obvious that 4o is currently the best chatbot. I just object to the boycott-without-cost-benefit-analysis.
Based on what?
How much money would (e.g.) LTFF have to get to balance out OpenAI getting $20 (minus the cost to OpenAI of providing ChatGPT Plus — but we can assume the marginal cost is zero), in terms of AI risk? I claim <$1. I’d happily push a button to give LTFF $1 and OpenAI $20.
[Belief not justified here]