joe curlee

So far American AI companies have decimated my IP. I am forced to use their services because they have priced us out of hardware. Claude and OpenAI have both inserted so much unasked for safety language that it has crippled some projects. The prices have been so high that I have often been forced to Chinese models (deepseek) which are hosted by the CCP in China - which means they've gained access to my system multiple times and I've had to cycle my credentials. If I don't use the contributor mode in Meta's AI muse code, I will blow through my tokens too quickly (they give a discount if you allow them to spy on your prompts and code for "training purposes").

ALL of these AI companies, in every country, are in bed with security agencies and spy companies. Flock, Palantir, Musk, Thiel, Google, Meta - all of them. Proven fact. They spy on Americans for unelected officials who are spying "for the greater good."

Yes, they're catching bad guys, but they're also looking at your dick. The trade off really isn't worth it.

The AI companies are also hoarding resources. They're giving many excuses as to why this is the case, and these are all lies. The real reason is to restrict rebellion from software engineers, like myself, who have been put out of a job over the last 10 years by H-1B workers, and now AI agents.

I am fully capable of running local models that can achieve the same level of work that I am achieving with these companies, using my own software that I have maintained myself for many years. I have built my own open source, free, AI infrastructure, and my voice has been drowned out by these AI companies who are fully in bed with the defense industry / military.

With my own hardware - which has rapidly, and artificially, become complete unaffordable - I would be able to cancel all of my AI subscriptions and work completely independently, start my own company and blow much of the competition out of the water. Yet - it has become impossible to do this because Sam Altman, Elon Musk etc would prefer to allow the general public to create cat photos and anime tit videos and try to tank the film and music industry rather than simply provide us with models that we can run on our own server racks.

These people are mentally retarded. They believe that consolidation is the answer to all of life's problems. One religion, one nation, one company servicing the world's companies.

They deserve to fall, fast and hard. Musk's empire must be splintered into the wind. Decentralization has kept the United States alive for 250 years - it is the hallmark of a true hacker and Centralization is death.

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