Fuck sake, dont you all get it. The point in this kind of AI is massive data harvesting and tie it all together.
It wont go away, because that would mean you’ll get some privacy back. You wont.
“Random bullshit Go!” meme…
They’ve finally proven that ALL they care-about is preventing integrity from having any root in any economy they’re infesting, & that ANYTHING that displaces correct-view is worth pushing, to prevent correct-view.
That changes the framing, in my eyes:
That means that it isn’t what they’re pushing that is The Problem: they’re simply too machiavellian to bother negotiating with.
THEY are the problem.
I’d want private-investigators on them, & I’d want a good war-chest for prosecuting them, once their corruption’s evidence was unearthed, enough.
People THAT anti-integrity consistently create evidence of their corruption.
The state won’t prosecute them ( big herds ONLY respect big herds, & corporations are herds, which is why when accountability threatens, they simply “dissipate”, and … “nobody is responsible!” … same as herds ), so activist-groups are going to have to do it.
Totally different framing.
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Construction companies should pay bricklayers in bricks and mortar
Uber should pay drivers in gas
Restaurants should pay chefs in raw ingredients
This is a radical idea, but maybe employers should be responsible for providing the supplies and tools their employees need to do their jobs? And the employees can just get money in return for their labor?
“People like you aren’t in for the money!” – always and only said by people who are in for the money
ceos get paid in empty promises and bad decisions?
employees can just get money
There’s your problem, right there, money is dangerous, can’t let the rabble have money - they might get too much and then they’d have power, power to disrupt the people who have money…
Imagine having tech employees beg their employers for a work computer. That’s basically what this article is suggesting.
I see a big silver lining on this cloud though: unlike a work computer, apparently AI subscriptions are not self-evidently worth having:
“It is starting to happen,” Tunguz told me, as employee use of AI increasingly contributes to total cash burn. “It is a consideration for the Office of the CFO.”
unlike a work computer, apparently AI subscriptions are not self-evidently worth having
Back in the 1980s it was highly debatable if there was value in desktop PCs beyond playing Solitare.
1981 was the year of the IBM PC, which was produced for 6 years and became a staple in the business world. Third-party software became widely available within a year. They were famous for the quality of the documentation.
Basically the opposite is true for AI’s flagship LLMs, for every one of rise things. The creators are unable to make money, investors are getting nervous, their functionality is poorly explained to businesses, the list goes on.
“You can spend your scrip at the company store.”
You burn 16 tokens and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
For the company.
I can’t wait till these companies start falling over so I can stop hearing about their ridiculous shit
What’s the expression? Markets can stay irrational longer than you can remain sane… or something like that.
It starts to sound like the Romans giving out VIP seats for the Colosseum while you see the smoke and the first flames on the horizon.
I can’t wait till these companies start falling over so I can stop hearing about their ridiculous shit
If you have a 401k, selling “Large-Cap” indexes or “Full market” indexes can help. (and buying something else, don’t leave it uninvested, obviously).
“Sorry, my mortgage servicer doesn’t accept AI slop as payment, so I’ll just take the money”
Sorry, Trump just ruled mortgages are illegal.
God this timeline is so fucking dumb
OpenAI exec highlights the rising importance of AI compute in tech job compensation.
In other news, Roblox executive thinks that having companies pay employees partly in Robux would be a great idea.
Yeah, I make 100,000 robux per year, get in bitches
These dudes seriously seem to have zero clue about being a human being.
Ha. Succumbing to Ads, selling their AI super-weapon to the most insanely violent US Fascist regime, and now trying to use compute as payment for staff and whatnot. They are really doing great :-)
I can’t wait for the lazy/scammy shareholders to lose all their stolen value…
…that said, ‘compute’ - maybe as tokens - can become a universal payment system in the future. The token ‘economy’ is already way bigger than all cryptoscams combined (+ hash compute -> worthless vs tokens) and it will become almost as essential as electricity. Let’s hope big tech …ychos doesn’t benefit from that development…
AI companies who can’t find anyone to buy their product, swear their employees would rather have their product in exchange for labor rather than money…
Which could easily be used to buy the product no one outside the company is buying.
This is just a way to juice metrics and claim this “compensation” as sales on the books.
And I’m almost positive the “per user growth” they’re talking about is just how brain rot addicts will use chatbots for everything once their brain atrophies from not using it. But just by mentioning that they had to admit that overall use wasn’t a metric they wanted to talk about.
It’s like how a small percentage of drinkers (the alcoholics) buy the vast amount of alcohol. Less people drinking is bad for the company, and a few alcoholics can’t sustain the company without being replaced by new addicts.
Edit:
Also, isn’t this literally a plot point from Silicon Valley?
Like, their desperation move to get funding at some point was handing out compute tokens, but the only people who wanted to buy it was their competitors because non of the companies had customers?
Sort of. It was more of a crypto token and the competitor was buying them all up so they could control over 50% and effectively break Pied Piper’s system.
It’s been a minute, but I thought the tokens represented compute time
But then they realized people valued the idea of compute time more than the compute time.
So it became similar to crypto, where it was just used as a currency.
The part about gaining control I thought was something else, where Pied Piper didn’t have 50% of accounts on an app, just a majority. And due to the decentralized nature of their software, whoever had the majority controlled the code. So the Chinese and Gavin set up a zombie network of bot phones to gain 50% in a hostile takeover once the boys were switched from independent accounts to an organization.
But like I said, it’s been a minute and sometimes I’m wrong.
But I think they were two separate iterations of what the company was at the time
Can’t they just pay me in NFTs?
Salary is 64GB of virtual ram
Awesome! Now they can lose money and get wrong answers at the same time!
