Generative AI

Effective as of Thursday, Novembet 27th, generative AI content (content including generated images, text, or other "content" "created" by artificial intelligence such as xAI Grok, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, or other similar tools) is banned on all Shrimpcamp platforms ("Tetratto", "Fluffle", "Issuestack", "Repris.org", or other tools hosted and maintained by Shrimpcamp). We believe that generative AI not only harms people by deceiving them or illegally plagiarizing work created by real people, but it also harms the people in the communities where AI datacenters are built and operated.

Using artificial intelligence, even just to generate a sentence or two, actively exploits communities who were forced into living next to the massive datacenters which generate this content for you. AI already kills people today, whether it be through straining the power grid of small communities, destroying the water supply of millions of people, or causing more air pollution in a year than even a factory would. xAI's datacenter in Memphis, Tennessee opened in July 2024. Memphis was already struggling with poor air quality, so xAI decided that would be the perfect place to illegally install 35 gas turbines without permits and pollute their air even further. This datacenter is what allows Grok to respond to each prompt on Twitter, all at the cost of the residents of Boxtown, Memphis. By continuing to allow generative AI, we would actively be supporting this behavior and fueling the slow death of neighborhoods which were disregarded by companies like xAI.

xAI is not the only company polluting communities and straining the electrical grid, however. Using ChatGPT uses 10x the energy a regular Google search would. Using AI also directly makes access to clean water in communities where it was already scarce near impossible. The power needed to train these models is more than enough to power 120 homes across the United States for a year, but it is instead going to the images or text you want to generate for the skills you're too lazy to learn.

Shrimpcamp already uses no AI in anything we do, but we're now planning on stepping up our approach. Anything posted which we believe to be generated by artificial intelligence will result in one warning, and then an account ban. Though this really won't make an impact, we believe this is the correct to decision to at least do what we can on our part.

❤️ Trisua, and the Shrimpcamp team