Plus, with no employees, there's no one with a paycheck.
No paychecks mean no customers.
We think billionaires spend lots, but they don't. Jeff Bezos buying a support yacht for his megayacht every ten years doesn't support an entire country's GDP.
Its those with the least to spend who are the actual job creators. They spend every penny they earn (and then some) because they have to in order to survive.
I had to take mandatory AI safety training at work. One thing that they kept stressing was how raw data shouldn't just be handed over to AI tools.
If you wanted to analyze customer orders, you should first redact the dataset by removing customer names, addresses, and any other identifiable information before giving it to the AI to ensure company secrets aren't leaked.
Is the tool so amazing that it's worth the risk of exposing trade secrets every time you use it? My company leadership says yes!
This person gives elon musk $8 a month
I'm constantly shocked (and not shocked) at how companies are doing this and at the same time aren't hosting the models themselves. Running deepseek on even the cloud is much cheaper, it's your vms and your data. Or god forbid your own infra. Seems way safer, and yeah you have to maintain it, but it's still your data.
Of course they fired everyone who knew how to stand up all of that so it probably isn't even on their minds.
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.
Once upon a time, there was this magical thing called "the cloud." The cloud was a place where data centers were a thing of the past, all the system and network admins were 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.
oh no no no, i just spent a week at a conference where EVERYONE wanted to talk about the permission problem.
You spend more money, to subscribe to a system that firewalls the agents from doing things out of their defined scope. but it's based on AI so you have to pay for tokens for that system too.
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.
The irony of that post having all the markers of being written by AI
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.
Just tell the ai it isn’t being a team player, that should fix it
You gave your corporate competitors access to all that.
i like the reminder to not work or even answer contact from work if you are not paid though..
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 and frenzied apes.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
They gave a stranger with no soul that is owned by another company the keys. It's like they have no idea what corporate espionage is.
Loyalty has been gone from the workplace for quite some time and if you're loyal to where you work you're a fool.
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 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.
The unifying thread across all high-control systems, from the earliest monarchies to industrial barons to modern tech-accelerationism and the maga movement, is the exploitation of manufactured fear and artificial scarcity to consolidate power and wealth while demanding unquestioning tribal loyalty. They also offer subscriptions for protection from the issues they made too, some called tithes, and others this way.
Yeah, well, spreading and LLM written Tweet, posted to farm attention while subscribed to X, is not exactly helping things…
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