Maybe instead of food we can be paid in ozempic (to reduce appetite) and a very very tiny amount of food. all humanity would become very skinny, and then theres less health care costs due to obesity.
I should really be in charge here.
Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation
Submitted 13 hours ago by JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3
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kreskin@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Tharkys@lemmy.wtf 1 hour ago
So that is why people think Grey aliens are just future humans! They took too much Ozempic and now they need to harvest genes from us to fix their own DNA.
tal@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
OpenAI exec highlights the rising importance of AI compute in tech job compensation.
In other news, Roblox executive thinks that having companies pay employees partly in Robux would be a great idea.
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
kreskin@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Robux and pedophile-bucks.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Construction companies should pay bricklayers in bricks and mortar
Uber should pay drivers in gas
Restaurants should pay chefs in raw ingredients
This is a radical idea, but maybe employers should be responsible for providing the supplies and tools their employees need to do their jobs? And the employees can just get money in return for their labor?
IronBird@lemmy.world 16 minutes ago
tbh, i always wondered by contruction industry types werent also paid in housing. like build X highrises you get a unit in one of said highrises
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
ceos get paid in empty promises and bad decisions?
kreskin@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Are arse reamings something they buy and sell, or a form of currency for ceo’s? What about female CEOs? (not that its a huge problem-- maybe those few old-guard female ceos just pay you in money).
matlag@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
“People like you aren’t in for the money!” – always and only said by people who are in for the money
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 hours ago
employees can just get money
There’s your problem, right there, money is dangerous, can’t let the rabble have money - they might get too much and then they’d have power, power to disrupt the people who have money…
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
God this timeline is so fucking dumb
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
“Sorry, my mortgage service doesn’t accept AI slop as payment, so I’ll just take the money”
darvocet@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
Sorry, Trump just ruled mortgages are illegal.
vane@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
With Levels.fyi pegging the 75th percentile software engineer salary at $375,000, Tunguz estimates that adding $100,000 in annual inference costs brings the fully loaded cost to $475,000 — meaning just over 20% of the compensation cost could come from AI usage in the future.
and later
Tunguz has been building AI tools and models into his daily workflow and is automating 31 tasks a day at a cost of about $12,000 a year in inference.
This article is insane and proves me more that AI product for rich people. Most of developers won’t see $100k in their lifetime.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Fuck sake, dont you all get it. The point in this kind of AI is massive data harvesting and tie it all together.
It wont go away, because that would mean you’ll get some privacy back. You wont.
XLE@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Imagine having tech employees beg their employers for a work computer. That’s basically what this article is suggesting.
I see a big silver lining on this cloud though: unlike a work computer, apparently AI subscriptions are not self-evidently worth having:
“It is starting to happen,” Tunguz told me, as employee use of AI increasingly contributes to total cash burn. “It is a consideration for the Office of the CFO.”
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 hours ago
unlike a work computer, apparently AI subscriptions are not self-evidently worth having
Back in the 1980s it was highly debatable if there was value in desktop PCs beyond playing Solitare.
XLE@piefed.social 4 hours ago
1981 was the year of the IBM PC, which was produced for 6 years and became a staple in the business world. Third-party software became widely available within a year. They were famous for the quality of the documentation.
Basically the opposite is true for AI’s flagship LLMs, for every one of rise things. The creators are unable to make money, investors are getting nervous, their functionality is poorly explained to businesses, the list goes on.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
AI companies who can’t find anyone to buy their product, swear their employees would rather have their product in exchange for labor rather than money…
Which could easily be used to buy the product no one outside the company is buying.
This is just a way to juice metrics and claim this “compensation” as sales on the books.
And I’m almost positive the “per user growth” they’re talking about is just how brain rot addicts will use chatbots for everything once their brain atrophies from not using it. But just by mentioning that they had to admit that overall use wasn’t a metric they wanted to talk about.
It’s like how a small percentage of drinkers (the alcoholics) buy the vast amount of alcohol. Less people drinking is bad for the company, and a few alcoholics can’t sustain the company without being replaced by new addicts.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 11 hours ago
Sort of. It was more of a crypto token and the competitor was buying them all up so they could control over 50% and effectively break Pied Piper’s system.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s been a minute, but I thought the tokens represented compute time
But then they realized people valued the idea of compute time more than the compute time.
So it became similar to crypto, where it was just used as a currency.
The part about gaining control I thought was something else, where Pied Piper didn’t have 50% of accounts on an app, just a majority. And due to the decentralized nature of their software, whoever had the majority controlled the code. So the Chinese and Gavin set up a zombie network of bot phones to gain 50% in a hostile takeover once the boys were switched from independent accounts to an organization.
But like I said, it’s been a minute and sometimes I’m wrong.
But I think they were two separate iterations of what the company was at the time
FireWire400@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: Slavery
FIFY
Kirp123@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s slavery but with AI. (Silicon Valley execs foaming at the mouth from excitement)
etherphon@piefed.world 11 hours ago
These dudes seriously seem to have zero clue about being a human being.
kreskin@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
being a human being is for the peasants.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
This is a bit like a job listing for a trade or technician position advertising they will supply a vehicle.
No shit, I need a van to do my job. You don’t really have a choice.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Hey you know what I could use to buy compute or literally anything else
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Awesome! Now they can lose money and get wrong answers at the same time!
krimson@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They are going full panic mode now. The crash has already begun.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Salary is 64GB of virtual ram
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Can’t they just pay me in NFTs?
Antaeus@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
How about compensation for making all hardware so expensive? How about compensation to artists for violating their work to train your precious models? How about compensation for the CO2 that they are spewing into to atmosphere?
Sims@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Ha. Succumbing to Ads, selling their AI super-weapon to the most insanely violent US Fascist regime, and now trying to use compute as payment for staff and whatnot. They are really doing great :-)
I can’t wait for the lazy/scammy shareholders to lose all their stolen value…
Sims@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
…that said, ‘compute’ - maybe as tokens - can become a universal payment system in the future. The token ‘economy’ is already way bigger than all cryptoscams combined (+ hash compute -> worthless vs tokens) and it will become almost as essential as electricity. Let’s hope big tech …ychos doesn’t benefit from that development…
itsathursday@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s like a grift card, only redeemable by the employer with your time, without the card.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Well, this is a fresh kind of hell…
db2@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Like all their ideas this one is also recycled.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 11 hours ago
The only thing they do that isn’t increasing pollution
Brewchin@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This reminds me of workers being paid in vodka during the USSR era. 😬
I wonder if it’s a coincidence.
fierysparrow89@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
😊😁😂🤣
Paragone@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
“Random bullshit Go!” meme…
They’ve finally proven that ALL they care-about is preventing integrity from having any root in any economy they’re infesting, & that ANYTHING that displaces correct-view is worth pushing, to prevent correct-view.
That changes the framing, in my eyes:
That means that it isn’t what they’re pushing that is The Problem: they’re simply too machiavellian to bother negotiating with.
THEY are the problem.
I’d want private-investigators on them, & I’d want a good war-chest for prosecuting them, once their corruption’s evidence was unearthed, enough.
People THAT anti-integrity consistently create evidence of their corruption.
The state won’t prosecute them ( big herds ONLY respect big herds, & corporations are herds, which is why when accountability threatens, they simply “dissipate”, and … “nobody is responsible!” … same as herds ), so activist-groups are going to have to do it.
Totally different framing.
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Photonic@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Mate, I don’t want to be mean or give unsolicited advice, but I do want to help.
Your comment is well meant and I kind of get what you want to say, but it’s so hard to follow. It shows signs of incoherence and hyperassociativity. You’ve also written hundreds of lines of comments in the past few hours and they are all in a similar style. This might just be your style, but it is often a sign of schizophrenia, psychosis or mania.
I really hope you will talk to a doctor about this, or at least a family member or friend that you can confide in.
unnamed1@feddit.org 13 hours ago
lol inference is already cheap af. Might as well pay money. Dipshits.
XLE@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Per-token costs are down, but you need more tokens; overall costs are up.
Jacob_Mandarin@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah they are trying to add more and more context and allow bigger and bigger requests.
Cost per request is probably still going up. On top of there being more and more requests.
1984@piefed.world 10 hours ago
;-)
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 11 hours ago
A new variation of “Eat your own dog food” 😃
Ulrich@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Look at you. You are the cloud now.
scytale@piefed.zip 8 hours ago
And like RSUs, they’re gonna stagger them over several years so you can’t get the full value when they fire you mid way, not that there’s any value in computes for actual real-life use. lol
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
“You can spend your scrip at the company store.”
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You burn 16 tokens and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Lexam@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
For the company.