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It seems suddenly relevant to repeat this: we should be building lots of little, independent, community-controlled and open alternatives to Big AI.

Anil Dash@anildash.com

It’s not inevitable! As I say here, “[T]here can be alternatives … rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of different little AIs from little responsible players.” And I think it’s honestly coming. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These aren’t mutually exclusive things, and I fully support ending ICE (and criminalizing it), and redirecting all of its funding to education and healthcare, which it should more than fully cover.

That’s fine. But it’s a bit like saying “the company that enabled the rohingya genocide is unacceptable for people to do business with”. It’s true, and then there are the few billion people on Instagram. Do you want to be right, or change things?

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This ignores the reality that there’s a coercive power to people wanting to connect with their family and friends. I make no excuses for Zuckerberg; I’m probably one of the few who’s called him out to his face enough that he was forced to reply. But forgoing WhatsApp means not speaking to my family.

I don’t think you’re going to get the hundreds of millions of people in rural India to switch to Signal, as much as I would want them to, especially given that they use WhatsApp for everything from cricket scores and updates on government announcements to