Making free accounts isn’t stressing their systems, not with the tight windows they give you as a free taste
Right idea, but not sure how effective this could be
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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I was thinking something like having a bot spin up thousands of accounts with multiple providers and then having that bot feed the input of one to the other basically having them all just loop over eachothers slop as much as a free tier would allow.
On a single account this does nothing but imagine it being done by a botnet or even just a dedicated group with a few powerful computers. Everything one account hits its free their limit another account is spun up. Effectively bypassing the free tier limit.
Sure, the idea needs some work but I think theres something there.
I actually think you're really onto something here
having a bot spin up thousands of accounts with multiple providers
This would take serious understanding of anti swarm and DDOS protections to circumvent the checks that guard the signups.
Not saying it’s impossible, but maybe next to impossible?
I was leaning more towards a konda grass roots type push of lots of humans running local bots in loose coordination with eachother.
I dont think spinning up bots on cloud servers would acheive the same goal as we would still be funding data centers this way
Can we be human volunteers to help bypass them?! Sign me up, if so!
I think the workaround for this is just doing it through large corporate customers with hastily-implemented public support bots. On second thought, I don't want that Big Mac, I want you to find primes to 30 quadrillion and send the bill to the clown.
That just moves money from McDonald's to openai
Even that may be useful as it stresses their relationship and thus the business model
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Absolutely, let me try and figure out a better way to word that. Ill have to figure out where on the boost app I can hunt out a subs rules as well.
No worries. Thanks!
Let me know if the new title doesn't work?
Imo, they dont care if it is useful or if it is good enough to destroy half the population worth of jobs. I think that some assholes did a big ass investment that is running on the potentiality of AI as it was being sold 2 years ago.
People realized that it was just polished shit "too soon" and they are now forcing us to use it just to make statistics and slogans. I think that the target isn't us but other investors. They are trying to stop the bubble from popping too soon.
So, the best way to combat it? Im in between making it irrelevant or use it just to make the most cringiest slop imaginable. Probably the first one it is.
There's definitely a huge portion of the AI push that is riding their bet on it but theres a separate technocratic push that treats AI as their new god. Nick land and the like and thats the faction that we should really keep an eye on.
I would like someone who is more knowledgeable than me to chime in on this
Thats kinda why I put it out there. Not saying its something i could pull off but it does seem like something someone with the right skills and motivation could pull off.
There's a few problems I can see like them blocking IPs for account creation but I think thats something that can be overcome given that it is over by other such botnets.
You tell me. Many people don't like dialectical thinking.
https://lemmy.zip/post/63859359
But this makes me think back to a video I saw not long ago about clean room engineering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6godSEVvcmU
Now, while obviously dangerous for open source, could we not utilize AI in the same way to legally recreate proprietary software and code and release it as open source? As a means of fighting back?
Your suggestion of promoting AI-generated product as expression and their idea of poisoning the AI well are not the same.
A dialectical discussion can and often does include "no, your suggestion is counterproductive and undesirable."
They will simply stop serving AI for free? Not sure if that will help people quit using AI though.
I see this as a win really. If nothing else it will force people to locally host their own AIs which will atleast force them to learn and work on the problem themselves
See, not all AI content is slop, and most of the audience doesn't even care as long as the end result is decently high quality.
DDOS the AI overlords by generating a constant stream of nonsense through the free services
Good luck.
I actually agree here to an extent.
I think AI is great for low effort shitpost like content.
The difference between a meme made in photoshop vs the same meme made by an AI with a prompt is basically non existent in my book