Next thing they'll make them live in AI towns.

In the olden days, this would be known as writing a rubber cheque.

what's the conversion rate of claude tokens to USD? trying to budget for my mcdonald's tonight

modern day company scrip, but significantly more useless

AI companies are paying in tokens to 1) generate more users for their shitty product and 2) save money.

Those are not signs of a healthy, growing industry. Those look like the last desperate attempts to right the sinking ship.

I owe my soul to the company store!

Lots of talk on microblog fedi about how this is because they're insolvent / don't have the liquid assets.

The least they could do is pay in graphics cards and ram

This is a good way to pay shitty offshore code churn centers and then claim the code they write is AI generated. Which we’ve already seen before. So it’s not unheard of.

Fake news AI companies don't have employees, they already automated everything. /s

Back in the day, I did see some cryptocurrency companies try to pay staff with their cryptocurrency. It's actually a good selection mechanism for the true believers.

I'm thinking about the exchange rate with Shrute bucks.

I mean the tokens basically represent time to use a slave, so tell the slave to do something profitable with the tokens and pocket the surplus value