This week’s big headline is: “Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation“. Uh huh. [Business Insider] The idea is that instead of getting paid dollars to work for an …

“I wonder if the future looks something more like Universal Basic Compute than Universal basic income, and everybody gets a slice of GPT7’s compute and they can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research, but what you get is not dollars but this productivity slice, you own part of the productivity.” - Sam Altman

  • dipcart@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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