Thank you for sharing — I basically share your concerns about OpenAI, and it’s good to talk about it openly.
I’d be really excited about a large, coordinated, time-bound boycott of OpenAI products that is (1) led by a well-known organization or individual with a recruitment and media outreach strategy and (2) accompanied by a set of specific grievances like the one you provide.
I think that something like this would (1) mitigate some of the costs that @Zach Stein-Perlman alludes to since it’s time-bound (say only for a month), and (2) retain the majority of the benefits, since I think the signaling value of any boycott (temporary or permanent) will far, far exceed the material value in ever-so-slightly withholding revenue from OpenAI.
I don’t mean to imply that this is opposed to what you’re doing — your personal boycott basically makes sense to me, plus I suspect (but correct me if I’m wrong) that you’d also be equally excited about what I describe above. I just wanted to voice this in case others feel similarly or someone who would be well-suited to organizing such a boycott reads this.
Thank you for sharing — I basically share your concerns about OpenAI, and it’s good to talk about it openly.
I’d be really excited about a large, coordinated, time-bound boycott of OpenAI products that is (1) led by a well-known organization or individual with a recruitment and media outreach strategy and (2) accompanied by a set of specific grievances like the one you provide.
I think that something like this would (1) mitigate some of the costs that @Zach Stein-Perlman alludes to since it’s time-bound (say only for a month), and (2) retain the majority of the benefits, since I think the signaling value of any boycott (temporary or permanent) will far, far exceed the material value in ever-so-slightly withholding revenue from OpenAI.
I don’t mean to imply that this is opposed to what you’re doing — your personal boycott basically makes sense to me, plus I suspect (but correct me if I’m wrong) that you’d also be equally excited about what I describe above. I just wanted to voice this in case others feel similarly or someone who would be well-suited to organizing such a boycott reads this.