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[–] 117 points 1 year ago

Maybe if billionaire oligarchs fall out of windows and the world keeps turning, billionaire oligarchs weren't really needed either.

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  • [–] 101 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Funny enough an AI would do his type of job very well. Spout bullshit and hallucinate an outcome, with just enough factual information to sound plausible. Sounds like a ceo to me.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago

    Sam Altman doesn't work a real job.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago

    Self awareness at an all time low there Sammy boy….

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well then say goodbye to all the CEOs. I’m sure an LLM could figure out how to do a better job than them and they have no golden parachutes either!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    One argument is that CEOs exist to take the blame when things go wrong. You can only do that once with an LLM, and then everything goes back to a human.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Jobs. Get.

    I guess Yahoo’s headline writing AI doesn’t understand subject verb agreement. Unless Altman is talking about Steve Jobs, who is dead.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    If billionaires meet Luigi, maybe they weren't even real people to start with?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    look I love to shit on AI, but this is a fucking terrible misleading headline

    The thing about that farmer,” Altman said, is not only that they wouldn’t believe you, but “they very likely would look at what you do and I do and say, ‘that’s not real work.'”

    This, Altman said, makes him feel “a little less worried” but “more worried in some other ways.”

    “If you’re, like, farming, you’re doing something people really need,” Altman explained. “You’re making them food, you’re keeping them alive. This is real work.” But the farmer would see our modern jobs as “playing a game to fill your time,” and therefore not a “real job.”

    “It’s very possible that if we could see those jobs of the future,” Altman said, we’d think “maybe our jobs were not as real as a farmer’s job, but it’s a lot more real than this game you’re playing to entertain yourself.”

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    "If my AI is capable of doing it, it was a shit job. Subscribe to my AI."

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    CEOs certainly do no real work.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    This actually jives well with the concept of the business idiot. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

    AI is being promoted by the business idiots because they see how it makes their job disposable. On the other hand, people who do work know that AI isn’t actually that useful.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Where is he talking all these nonce from? Is he even real at this point?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I'm so sad to see the best possible way to legitimize a Universal Basic Income being wasted

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Sam is UI, Unintelligent.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    You first, Sam.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    at the same time bill gates said the same thing, with different words.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    And here I thought it was going to be him referencing Graeber in a way that indicates he never read the full book or understood its point. But nope, dumber.

    Altman, if the masses are unemployed and you're fabulously wealthy, well, read a history book to see what happens.

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  • AI doesn’t create value. It extracts value from the work of millions of people. Fuck Sam Altman.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Read the article before replying. Too late for some of you anyways.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If jobs replaced by LLMs and image generators aren’t real work, then what work did those steal from?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    He's right. AI isn't doing a good job anyway. If a company can """replace""" (cut) jobs like that and survive, the position is useless.

    The question is, is it truly so? Or did this move start the company's doomsday clock?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Looking at most of the comments, it seems reading past the headline isnt real work either, as no one wants to do it... lol.

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