Just as soon as my rent is accepted in compute tokens…

The article also points out that this is straight up illegal, but these guys are above the law so fuck us normal people ig:

The idea is that instead of getting paid dollars to work for an AI company … you get paid in AI tokens. The units that the AI vendor charges API access in. You have to use these tokens in your job, too.

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. Company scrip was always just a scam, and paying workers in company scrip has been illegal in the US since 1938. But you know these guys don’t care.

Any sane person die of embarrassment after saying something like that in public. At the very least, they would be fired/dropped as a business partner. What the fuck is going on with the world when these are our “captains of industry”?

He basically just told them that he wants to pay them in hopes and prayers. His hopes and prayers.

“I wonder if” reads as “AAAARGH!!!! WE’RE CRASHING!!!!!!”

I'd rather get paid in shit. At least I can use shit as fertilizer.

No. But, also, HELL NO! And, to clarify, FUCK YOU!

Besides the fact that its fucked up to try to pay people in what is slightly less valuable than v bucks, how do their employees not have free access to chatgpt???

Also in his quote about currency being a slice of compute... In his perfect world where AI can do anything, why the fuck do people still have to donate compute for cancer research? That is so fucking stupid

Getting paid in monopoly money is just the same.

hmmmm are they running so low on cash they need to stop bleeding on their payroll...

Man who basically needs chatGPT to replace the world economy for his company to succeed imagines chatGPT taking over the world. Who would have thunk.