The Anti-Ai Counter-Boycott: A Proposal
Anti-Ai is fundamentally a boycott movement.
And they're not only boycotting our companies and products, but actively working to push policies in our industries to make it easier for them to boycott us or otherwise make it more difficult to operate.
For example, Steam's irrational mandatory Ai use disclosure policy, which they don't just use to quietly boycott games, but also to actively harass the developers with bogus negative reviews and other actions off of the platform.
Their boycott work extends also to the level of trying to influence the law. They are working with Disney's Copyright Alliance and companies like Adobe to lobby the government to outlaw the use of free, open source Ai models and tools on copyright grounds, which would force us to have to pay huge subscription fees to companies like Adobe in order to use their "copyright ethical Ai tools" instead.
And to make matters worse, the proposed means by which enforcement of those regulations would be pursued involves unprecedented surveillance technology that will be used for far more than just controlling which Ai tools creators are allowed to use when developing commercial products.
To put it simply, Anti-Ai is not only a threat to individual creative expression and small businesses, but to human freedom at global scale.
I think maybe it's time we stop just complaining about this problem and take action.
I propose a counter-boycott:
A complete and total boycott of any artist, developer, company, product, or service that promotes or bends the knee to Anti-Ai ideology in any way.
Since they won't dialogue with us whatsoever, I see no other course of action than to refuse to do business them, depriving them of our money, time, and attention.
That's exactly what they're already doing to us, except that they have big government and major megacorps on their side.
Boycott Anti-Ai.
i'm thinking of creating a website for tracking Anti-Ai artists, developers, services, and companies so that they can be completely boycotted.
thoughts?