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Yeah so small business without AI slop is clearly better, it's just that small business with AI slop still supports big business less than you supporting big business directly.
Does it, though? Small business still has more money to throw to corporations than individual people.
A small business with an AI poster is still better than a big business with an AI poster.
And you czn be sure those big businesses are using way more AI
Yes, getting stabbed in the arm is better than getting stabbed in the throat. Doesn't mean I should go and get stabbed in the arm.
My reasoning was that when you buy from a big business, then 100% of what you spend goes there, while less than 100% of your spending go to big business if you buy from a small business that supports big businesses itself.
It doesn't make sense to compare the total amount a small business contributes to a big business with the total amount an individual person contributes, unless you have some further factors you think I have failed to take into account.
Why wouldn't it make sense? If I want to minimize the amount of support corporate LLMs get, it absolutely makes sense to stop endorsing other businesses that use it.
The original claim I made was that supporting small business is better than directly supporting big businesses. You are 100% right about minimising the amount corporate LLMs get, it's just that your responding to my comparison of small business vs big business. What you want to do is to support neither of them, so I wouldn't really spend more time analysing what I said since I don't think it's relevant to you.
Yes, I don't really support this "lesser evil" type argument, since both options in the end proliferate corporate slop. If a business can't exist without using corporate LLMs, it shouldn't exist.
Black and white opinions are fine on the internet but they don't work very well in real life. You have to have nuance and make educated choices.
If the the small business doesn't use AI, they sure as hell still are using Intuit for bookkeeping or Sysco for supplies or Microsoft for email. You can't get any from indirectly supporting the mega corps. But you can minimize your impact by making smart choices, like picking the lesser evil sometimes.