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    16 days ago

    Supporting a small business with an AI Poster is much better than supporting a big corporation

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      16 days ago

      Why? Isn’t the small business supporting a big AI corporation? So a big corporation is getting supported either way?

      Small businesses aren’t inherently cool and good, many of them would prefer to be large corporations, they just don’t know how to get there.

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        16 days ago

        Creating an AI Poster might literally just be one month of some $5 AI sub or a free trial. There’s no way to verify how much they’re actually supporting the AI Company.

        And while your second point is valid, if you really cared about supporting local you’d simply do some research on which local businesses are running with a community-centric approach. Which ones are run by decent people. Etc. That will likely but not definitely exclude businesses that use AI anyway.

        I’d also just rather support a local shithead than a billionaire shithead 🤷