AI investment has helped keep markets and economic growth ticking along, but the IMF fears the boom could quickly turn to bust if the promised profits fail to materialize. With tech giants borrowing billions and investors piling into the same handful of companies, a selloff could leave more than just Silicon Valley nursing a hangover.
I am using chatgpt without paying them. I’m doing my part to waste their resources! When AI finally stops being shoved down my throat, it’ll be a good day.
You think they aren’t harvesting your data for advertising?
And even if you are somehow anonymized, any usage to juice their numbers is what they want.
If you want to stick it to ChatGPT, use their competition. GLM, Xiaomi, Deepseek, Mistral, Nemotron, whatever;their absolute deepest fear is the public pivoting to actually free models. And you can use them with whatever level of privacy you wish, since you aren’t locked to vendors.