Oh thank heavens some people still have ethics.
Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety"
Submitted 5 hours ago by futurk@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4133137/why-are-ai-leaders-fleeing.html
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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
kescusay@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
And it’s not even working. Not one of the AI companies is profitable. So they’re putting the hope for profits some time in the future over sanity and safety.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Steve Burke (of GN) described the absurdity pretty well, within the context of the currently uncertain Nvidia and OpenAI deal:
Nvidia offered OpenAI $100B in investment, money that it didn’t have, as long as OpenAI gave that money back to Nvidia to lease GPUs that haven’t been made, to then put in data centres that haven’t been constructed, which will be powered by electricity that hasn’t come online, to then rent to users who haven’t subscribed, to provide them features that haven’t come to fruition.
teft@piefed.social 1 hour ago
And hope you’ve propped up the economy enough by the end of it that the government has to bail you out…i mean provide a “backstop”.
Yliaster@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
What about all the user data they sell to third parties? I’d be interested in knowing how that contributes to this
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 hours ago
AI businesses are putting profits over sanity and safety.
All businesses are. That’s what a business is. A legal entity that seeks to extract as much wealth from people as possible. They put profits before people as a matter of policy.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 hours ago
That’s not what business is inherently; that’s what capitalism is.
fafferlicious@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It’s not even what capitalist about. It’s some stupid bullshit interpretation that came out of the University of Chicago economics department.
Seriously, go look at Adam Smiths wealth of nations. The only mention of the “invisible hand” is so different from what is taught in economics now
… by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
It’s not that we need no regulation. It’s just trying to say that if we set things up correctly, we don’t need to worry about people pursuing SOLELY their own personal gain. Because the market seems out the “greatest value”, which is not just about money. It’s also the value to society as a whole.
Instead, we got the fucking bullshit from Chicago saying that the only / best way of measuring value is by profit.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
As a legal requirement.
XLE@piefed.social 3 hours ago
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.
melfie@lemy.lol 2 hours ago
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.
Repelle@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 59 minutes ago
Talents leave
Tell me a “journalist” has no concept of mass nouns without using those words.
Coyote_sly@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
…what profits?
HexParte@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Just another day in corporate America. Putting fake profits over employees’s well-beings, and customer safety and privacy.
The thing that gets me is they just want to get in on this $2Billion investment that keeps changing hands without changing hands. They really are just taking IOUs from… elsewhere? Because apparently, according to Jensen, that money hasn’t actually exchanged hands. Investors are just buying into the new Ponzi Scheme.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The alternative prediction is that this is in fact sustainable and AI companies will in fact have revenue to keep the bubble inflated for a lot longer, just in the worst way - by extracting the value of reliability and trust from the market:
CEOs have also bought into AI almost to a person, and are using it to replace workers, results be damned. AI can’t do the things they believe it can, but to them, if they can fake satisfying a need with AI for $5, that is preferable to actually satisfying a need with a real employee for $10.
The CEO is happy because his company saved $5 and he’s met his stock option incentive target, the AI companies are happy to pocket that $5 instead of the employee getting $10. Maybe they even raise the customer’s price to $12 as AI rent-seeking starts rising, and both companies get $6 each. Win-win, life will go on, just worse for everyone else.
northernlights@lemmy.today 51 minutes ago
CEOs have also bought into AI almost to a person, and are using it to replace workers, results be damned. AI can’t do the things they believe it can, but to them, if they can fake satisfying a need with AI for $5, that is preferable to actually satisfying a need with a real employee for $10.
Yep that’s exactly how me and my entire team were laid off. “Automatization”.
melfie@lemy.lol 2 hours ago
Breaking news: a for-profit corporation did something shitty to make number go up. In other news, it was recently discovered that ticks feed on their hosts’ blood with no concern for the well-being of their hosts.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
“They are putting profits over sanity and safety”
Soooooooo, just like every other business in the history of capitolism?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
It worked for airline manufacturers, it can work for you too!
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
Sims@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
So they only now figured out that all Corporations and their sick shareholders are shit evil and doesn’t care about anything else than profits ?! Wtf do they think activists are doing ?
Imagine being a Demis Hasabi, or similar cunt, voluntarily giving/developing AI technology - the most extreme power in human history - to the most evil corporation in human history, run and owned by the most evil people in the world, placed in the most evil lying empire of all times ! Wow - that is a great idea… cough…
Well, better late than never I guess. Even for normal naive, dumb slow-thinking AI researchers. Let’s hope they start waking up from their business/market psychosis, and do some open source work - real mutually beneficial work - for us all instead of boosting the psychopath Oligarchy that runs our little world.
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 4 hours ago
It’s so nice to see these kind of posts. Because I keep thinking I’m the only one who thinks ai has turned incredibly evil and will only get worse.
“One Program to rule them all, One Program to find them, One Program to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.”
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 4 hours ago
They are putting profits over sanity and safety
First time?
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 35 minutes ago
That’s just every company isn’t it?