Reinventing scrip

The bubble, she is about to burst!

You forward 16 prompts, what do you get?
Another day older, and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter (Thiel) don't you call me, cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the AI store

Oh so we're reinventing company towns... Someone should tell them how that ended last time

Who wants to buy some genuine HiddenLayer555 natural stupidity tokens? Guaranteed to be natural, guaranteed to stupid.

Ok, so correct me if I'm wrong, but usually the reason you do this is because the cost to produce this benefit is lower than the price you usually sell it for, so you can inflate the claimed value of the benefit, both to appeal to candidates and to write it off on your taxes. But at the moment tokens are usually sold way below cost (i.e. the companies are not profitable), so why the fuck would any company do this? Are they this short on cash now?

Sammy gets moist thinking about assholes getting paid in tokens they can convert to crypto to pay for ChatGPT.

call me back when my landlord decides AI tokens are acceptable for rent

You know I just checked, and my landlord doesn’t take AI tokens.

The new company scrip.

Still illegal.

They're bringing sexy scrip back

A plot point in Terry Pratchett's book Going Postal was postage stamps being used as currency, because they were backed by the postal system, which was seen as trustworthy.

This is a similar line of thinking, but far more delusional, as an AI company is nowhere near as trusted as the postal service.

You load 16 gigs, and what do you get? Sudo apt update && apt upgrade, Admin dont you call on me, cause I can't compute, I owe my soul to the LLM.

??????? That’s not how getting paid works??????????

Because AI companies are running out of money?

No one ever pays me in gum :/

"Don't take wooden nickels"

Steinbeck

They're going to have these giant data centers, and they will have residences next door, and a small little town will grow up around it, and the only money allowed will be company scrip, and these people will be trapped, essentially slaves.

Any employee willing to be paid by token or crypto gets what they deserve. The only reason these companies can get away with this crap is because the proletariat are allowing it.

You need a job, and you want it to be exciting; that’s understandable. Maybe you’re trying to break into the industry. Yes, it’s tough. People will tell you that you’ve got to pay your dues or some other “toe the line” bullshit.

People need to realize that companies are not friends, they are a means to an end. And you are their means to an end. They will use you, just like you will use them. If they want you to work pong hours for as little pay as they can get away with, walk away. There are other jobs out there. They may not be glamorous, but they are out there.

It's time to start demanding we be paid our wages in gold fucking nuggets.

Funny idea, but never going to happen, not legal.

This idea was most recently floated by Thibault Sottiaux at OpenAI: [Twitter, archive]

I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews how much dedicated inference compute they will have to build with Codex.

Aren't these candidates asking about token budgets for doing their job? This has nothing to do with compensation...

When society finally crumbles and the people storm the white house I have dibs on that gold wall sconce from home depot. The one on the left side, in that room where the lamp is, by the end table.

If only WorldCom had thought of paying employees in long distance minutes (they got for free at work), they'd still be around today, under theory that employees would still have worked there.

Those "bozos" are desperate to capitalize on thin air, and fintech tells them to go ahead:

AI cannot be managed with outdated cost models. Business leaders should treat AI economics with the same rigor as energy or capital allocation, recognizing tokens as the new currency

https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/emerging-technologies/ai-tokens-how-to-navigate-spend-dynamics.html

What's is that good for?

This is not in any way a “new” idea. It’s company scrip — a company’s own made-up money that you can only spend in the company store.

At least you could buy food with company script. Tech bros have really invented company script, but worse.

Are none of them offering to convert their own wealth into AI tokens to signal their support for this new amazing system? Why not?

Hopefully they run out of cash flow asap.

This just sounds like shittier crypto 2.0

“Thanks, I'm 300 tokens short for rent this month.”

Labor theory of value, but worse

Sorry. That's not legal tender. 

Sixteen prompts
What do i get?
Another day older
And deeper in dept
Saint peter (thiel) dont call me
Cause i cant go -
I owe my soul to the AI slopstore

[x] Doubt

@dgerard these tokens, are they... Fungible?

I literally thought this shit was The Onion at first glance

we are living through the shittiest Shadowrun campaign ever written