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Enterprises also become dependent on future cartel pricing. If AI is running their company/tech stack, then 10x or 100x pricing increases in AI gives them little time to shift away with few people who understand the company/'s tech stack/purpose.
Not really no. While it’s a fun story, there are open source models that are about 6 months behind the frontier models. OTOH, if they pass the legislation to “prevent dangerous models in the wild” I’m sure those models will be shutdown, at which point they can start charging cartel prices. Assuming the AI companies don’t become like the airlines: a cut throat business with almost zero margin, where all the value is taken by the consumers.
So true. Employers hate labour so much, it can only be because they’re shit people.
I’m currently looking for work and yesterday I saw a job posting that listed “extensive use of generative AI” as one of the job responsibilities. I noped that one right away.
The problem is in the mean time the fired employees are stuck jobless in a world that runs on money
Plenty of free time to plan a revolt
Ammunition also costs money 😢
Only the first purchase
I have NFI how anyone is able to spend more on tokens than humans cost unless they’re legitimately retarded
come on now, no need for slurs.
Thank you.
Not a stranger, corporation, their employees, their advertising partners, their external consulting companies, their safety reviewers from Africa and India. It’s like you talk what you do everyday to small city of people.
Stuff like this is what made me understand that the MBA class is full of incompetent people who focus too much on networking and too little on learning how things work.
MBA class is oligarch wannabes.
MBA’s will chase the lowest cost option regardless of how terrible it is. Like replacing skilled IT with people who will “work for $2 a day!!!” I lost my job hears ago to that pitch and I’ve talked to others who heard the identical claim “$2 a day I have to hire them.” Then it turned out most of these experts were totally unqualified to do the job. Wonder why 70% of websites are glitchy as fuck these days?
And the saracha company famously fucked themselves when the owner brought in a one of their relatives who was a newly minted MBA. These business genius fucked over the farmer the company has worked with since it was founded and ended up not being able to source the peppers they needed to produce their sauce. Remember the shortage a few years ago? Yeah that was cause the MBA dumbfuck burned the supplier that had helped them become a household name all in the sake of slightly more $$$
I had to take a “business class” as a requirement for a programming degree. The final project was to present a business plan. It was a group project and one group had a member who could not read their part of the presentation. That is to say they were illiterate, not that they were experiencing stage fright. I presume they got a passing grade, too, since the instructor offered no criticism.
The fact that Donald Trump has an MBA really should invalidate the entire qualification.
He doesn’t even have that. He just pretends, by misleadingly saying he has a degree from Wharton. He does have a business degree from undergrad, from the University of Pennsylvania, whose business school is called Wharton, but most people say Wharton degree to refer to an MBA from that business school. He takes advantage of the confusion by referring back to his Wharton degree, and it sometimes works.
Wait so he pretends to have got one of the easiest degrees to acquire? I can’t decide if that is more or less pathetic than Elon Musk getting people to play games for him.
Yeah an MBA really just requires you to show up and network. As long as you do the minimum, you will get one.
Once upon a time, there was this magical thing called “the cloud.” The cloud was a place where data centers would a thing of the past, all the system and network admins would be unemployed, and you could just deploy anything, with the click of a single button.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago.
We’re in a meeting when one of the mid-level execs makes a comment about doing a project a certain way “in case we want to move off Azure.” He was serious too.
I nearly snorted my coffee out my nose because we are never going to move off Azure. They have us by the balls but it would cost more, millions more, to migrate to a different cloud provider.
But then from a cloud (and “AI”) providers perspective, thats the goal. They want you dependent on them to the point where you literally can’t afford to leave.
That’s because everyone’s managers are idiots it seems like you have to be an idiot before you’re allowed to be manager if you show any kind of gumption you’re automatically disqualified from applying. Every IT tech the world over has almost certainly attempted to explain to their bosses that this is an introductory offer, and Microsoft, or Anthropic or whatever AI company they were going with, will absolutely raise prices later on. Signing into a subscription you cannot afford to get out of, is an financially irresponsible decision.
They were all ignored. Of course they were ignored, managers who can barely operate a mouse always know better than their dedicated IT support teams with a combined knowledge of over a hundred years in the industry. Fact of nature.
Hopefully a bunch of businesses will now fail, people will realize that reliance solely on an AI is a bad idea, and if you insist on using an AI, relying on a subscription AI is an extra stupid double plus bad idea, and then perhaps we can move back to some kind of normality, and then I can buy a freaking graphics card.
It is essentially the platonic perfect form of enshittification, just aimed at business customers, instead of consumers.
The ultimate form of capital canibalizing itself, and everything else.
Any CEO that couldn’t rub two neurons together and like, immediately realize that this is what would happen, that this is the business model, is definitionally catastrophically incompetent.
They merely proved that they are dumber than highly inefficient autocomplete algorithms, that they’re arguably not actually conscious.
They are nothing but cogs in a more ephemeral machinery of mindsets and unquestioned assumptions.
These collosal dumbasses likely won’t actually be fired by their boards for this astronomical fuck up, by the logic of the system they are slaves to… because capitalism is simply a mask worn, a charade danced by the same kind of elitist, maniacal, psycho and sociopathic impulse toward extreme power and control that has always cursed our species.
Its ultimately a fear response. A misdirected, very complex fear response. ‘Bad things can happen, bad people can do bad things, thus I must erect walls and pay guards and force farmers to toil and waste away to feed the guards, so that I can be safe in my castle.’
These LLMs, they can be used in sensible and broadly beneficial ways. They’re not ‘superintelligence’, but they can be genuinely useful when used responsibly, with safeguards, by people well trained in their use, just like any other human technology.
Perhaps we actually need a ‘technology’ that punishes, dissuades, redirects or moderates this suicidal impluse latent in us, to create an unsustainable degree of control over others.
A reconceptualization of ourselves and our society.
Perhaps the world needs an idea whose time has come…
… radical egalitarian empathy, solidarity, a collective understanding that we are all ultimately clever apes that ditched the body hair for sweating, who are all much more similar than we are different…
… a flattened power hierarchy with participation from more equal positions and between actors with less singular power, a restructured society that uses the tools and resources we have to guarantee a basic level of material security for all…
… a mindset that understands that freeing the masses from want, securing for all the bottom rung or two of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, that that is the truest form of actual personal safety and security that any individual can possibly achieve, in this world of ours filled with us easily frightened apes.
Isn’t this ignoring the actual obvious problem which is: you can’t actually replace employees with AI?
I feel like I’m going nuts. I have a small consultancy with a half dozen employees. Sure Gen AI might give us a 10% efficiency bump in the future with the current tech at it’s ideal implementation, which remains a decade away IMO.
I’d love for some automaton to be able to do my job but that’s just not my reality.
Additionally, the jobs AI can adequately replace are often the jobs companies use to train and vet people beginning their careers. Put another way, you don’t get any senior devs if you replace all your junior devs with chatbots.
Yes. AI can take over some tasks. And many higher-ups think that an employee does just a single task because that’s what’s on paper while reality is a lot different.
i like the reminder to not work or even answer contact from work if you are not paid though…
Brutal. I love it.
I love how the AI just stops working if the tokens are gone.
They can’t be coerced into working overtime. They can’t be threatened with being fired. They do what is in their contract, and that is the end of it.
Don’t like it? Go find an other AI that will do exactly the same.
Fun fact, you also describe some outsourcing arrangements that my company got into.
They decided the outsource strategy would be cheaper. Then shocked Pikachu face when the company said to fuck off when they had new/changed requirements unless they brought way much more money. They did actually learn there was value in having a workforce that is inclined to “suck it up” versus the seemingly cheaper up-front outsourcing company, and spent years building back ability to do it in-house again.
And lately they’ve been mumbling that maybe outsourcing would be cheaper again…
Tbf that’s one good thing we can learn from LLMs. When the pay stops, your labour stops.
Your pay doesn’t stop when you’re on salary.
You assume minimum wage workers like me get a salary lol
Edit: in the uk, if your total pay divided by your total hours falls below minimum wage, then yes, your pay stopped and you still worked. From my management colleagues who were on salary, they still had a set number of hours they worked per week.
Strangely enough the deputy manager who worked twice my hours got twice my takehome pay, despite that I was just a sales assistant.
It does stop when your shift ends.
Your shift doesn’t have set start and end times when you’re on salary. You might work 40 hours one week but 54 hours the next week, and maybe 34 hours another week. For the same amount of money.
In developed countries, your salary is for a fixed week of working hours. So if my shift is 6-14 monday-friday, I work for that time. Anything outside that is considered overtime and strictly regulated. People also have the right to refuse work calls after their shift ends.
That’s not how it works in the US. But you could argue we aren’t a developed country anymore since Trump came into power.
Anymore? I can’t imagine any self respecting country to expect its citizens to pay for insulin and cancer treatment. The USA is a developing country cosplaying as a developed country.
That’s exactly my point. Sorry to tell you but I can’t consider the US a developed country. It’s basically a third world country with a lot of billionaires and car-centric cities that look modern. But that’s basically it.
What? No. I have work hours in my contract, if I work over that I get overtime. What contract are you on?
Most salaried people in the US have hours on paper but are coerced into working more. I’m theoretically supposed to work 40 hours per week, but if the production line is down they beg me to come in. I can say no, but the people who say no don’t get promoted.
That’s why you take stuff from work!
You gave your corporate competitors access to all that.
The Amazon style of business, that offers a platform to sell stuff but copies anything worthwhile and releases it under an Amazon brand. Now coming for whole businesses.
It’s just weights bro please bro c’mon it’s federated bro no pii leaves your org bro, just a bunch of matrices of vectors, it’s totally different bro
This person gives elon musk $8 a month
When I was much younger, a verified user meant that you were someone important. :-/
The hipocrisy of this post. To everyone upvoting this - you’re being fed AI-written anti-AI slop and you’re loving it.
Let me use AI to fact check it
tbf those who do use AI a lot tend to adapt its mannerism. so if someone had a change of heart about AI it is possible for them to speak against it but use a style similar to it
or they could be autistic
Hidden third option: Adapting your language to your audience, so it is better received by those that need to hear it.
I detest how anyone with the bare minimum of writing skills is accused of using AI these days, and how it totally derails the actual messaging. I’m honestly starting to dislike the people who cry wolf about AI more than the people who actually use AI at this point.
Sounds like A.I. would be replacing CEOs very soon.
