• tal@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    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.

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    2 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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      2 months ago

      It’s slavery but with AI. (Silicon Valley execs foaming at the mouth from excitement)

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    2 months ago

    “Sorry, my mortgage servicer doesn’t accept AI slop as payment, so I’ll just take the money”

    • XLE@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      Per-token costs are down, but you need more tokens; overall costs are up.

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        Yeah they are trying to add more and more context and allow bigger and bigger requests.

        Cost per request is probably still going up. On top of there being more and more requests.

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    2 months ago

    How about compensation for making all hardware so expensive? How about compensation to artists for violating their work to train your precious models? How about compensation for the CO2 that they are spewing into to atmosphere?

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    2 months ago

    I can’t wait till these companies start falling over so I can stop hearing about their ridiculous shit

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      2 months ago

      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.

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        2 months ago

        We’ve had smoke on the horizon for a long time now but the fire never comes. We’ve all learned that smoke and screams is just normal.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah man, we’re going to have AI everything, we’ll all exist in a metaverse, and everything will be run from tablet computers that we can access from our car as it drives us to and from work, where we will work way fewer hours. Employees will still have to physically show up to work I’m afraid.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      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).

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      2 months ago

      What’s the expression? Markets can stay irrational longer than you can remain sane… or something like that.