“AI businesses are putting profits over sanity and safety”.
Remove “AI” from that sentence and you’ll see that’s just more normal business practices that have been going on for decades.
The real question is: what profit? It’s a sink hole in a hope to maximize reach
Ho, you can trust OpenAI and Nvidia to make a profit. You and your pension funds? What pension funds?
This is a ball and cup game designed to create cashflow where there is none. The ‘profit’ is the assets, dividends and capital gains the shareholder class will syphon out before the bubble bursts.
What profits?
Now what does that tell us about the sanity and safety?
If anybody leaves an AI company with a fat paycheck, promises to “be honest about the real problems,” and then proceeds to regurgitate things the AI company CEOs say: be suspicious.
Exhibit A is Anthropic millionaire Mrinank Sharma, who only mentioned (future) peril from AI and AI-made bioweapons, two fictional scenarios on the short list that Anthropic officially endorses. It’s a list of things that please Anthropic investors.
Real-world stuff like AI psychosis, poisoning people’s air, or generating CSAM doesn’t get a mention from him. There’s no profit in acknowledging those things, so he won’t.
Maybe Claude Code learned this from its creators: I’ve noticed that when it says “the real issue is…”, that means it has no clue and is about barf out a bunch of slop that I’m going to have to revert.
The only time it ever says “the real issue is” and is right is when I’ve just corrected it and told it the real issue which it then wastes tokens regurgitating back to me. Gods I miss not having to use this crap at work
You HAVE to use it?
Yes, our usage is tracked. Managers have statistics broken down by daily usage per agent
Yup. Lots of managers are forcing people to use AI so they can report doing so in their metrics.
Yep there is a deep attachment amongst AI boosters to certain doom and gloom scenarios that stem from their philosophical “think tanks” which use imaginary problems (e.g. “AGI ‘misalignment’ destroying the world through turning everything into paperclips”) to lobby and alter our laws to benefit their real bosses – anthropic, open ai, and friends.
This is many companies right now.
Mine is run from the top down (all executives) by people who use LLM’s for fucking everything.
Everyone fucking hates them at this point. We all think they are fucking trash.
Maybe it’s time to grab some fellow employees and make an employee owned business.
I would love for this to happen in so many industries but everything takes so much capital to get started :/
The MBA class has long been this way.
my older bro who WAS in tech uses it the same way, no thought of his own, he always use CHATGPT to find answers.
I used to find answers on Google, but Google Web search doesn’t return good results anymore. So I end up using ai.
What industry is your company in?
That’s just every company isn’t it?
Not in my experience. Once their clients budgets get cut by funding cuts due to reality and they notice it doesn’t do anything of benefit (on the clients side), they will be all “client first”.
Just vibe code the AI. I’m sure it’ll work perfectly.
After $1T poured into global warming, why can’t AI replace them ?
thats why they are trying to peddle data centers to india, for low cost maintenance.
I sure hope they secretly sabotage on their way out to protect society
There’s a huge list of eye rolls here but also…what profits?
Define “talent”. Software developers focused on squeezing llms into everything regardless of necessity? I’m likely jaded as an infra monkey but you’ll have to pay me x3 as much to fix your broken servers after the bubble pops.
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Oh thank heavens some people still have ethics.
if they had ethics they would have left a long time ago.
Publicly traded companies are legally required to put profits over sanity, safety, and everything else. It’s a truly insane system we’ve put together for ourselves.
Interestingly they are not. Its commonly shilled by C-scum, but it’s a lie.
Look up “shareholder primacy”. It’s enshrined in law.
BTW you said Midjourney is a profitable company elsewhere. Can you provide a source?
It literally isn’t. Google shareholder primacy and you’ll notice its a norm, not a law (in the USA).
You can also Google Midjourney.
It’s a judicial precedent
Why don’t you show us your Google result that proves Midjourney made of profit?
Holz told The Register in August 2022 that the company was already profitable.
Is this still the case?
Every company does that. The difference is the AI companies will be broke soon and laying off all their staff so people are getting out before the collapse.
Exactly. And some of them are rats fleeing a sinking ship. Just look at Mrinank Sharma, who got paid a million bucks or so for a year at Anthropic, then ditched.
