Tech bros are salivating at the idea. The generation of tech bros that brought us the "disruption" of taxis and hotels, by not hiring staff but instead paying gig workers horribly, now found a way to also let go all other office staff.
Tech bros have been moving fast and breaking things since forever. AI just needs to be kinda OK at doing HR and accounting and other boring useless company jobs. If something goes wrong, it's just the VC money that's at stake. And the solution is more AI and more VC money.
and they named it paperclip, like the game where an IA that produce paperclip erase every life on earth and expand to the universe to continue to growth
I know this is just some shitty marketing phrase, but I don't think that would even work, legally. AIUI, to be a company (ie, a limited company) requires being registered with human directors, as they check you're not banned from being one.
No call to be facetious. It's true for most western countries, and possibly more globally - these things tend to follow certain rules of legal and financial logic.
What I meant probably didn't carry over through text well. I was being very literal because you were very literal – to show the problem with that.
Yes, obviously you didn't mean it would actually be illegal in all countries that exist.
My point is that the "zero-humans" naming also doesn't actually mean zero humans. There is someone controlling whatever that project is.
I know right? My feed used to be really cool now it's just "Oobinga: Combine Badoinka and Ubunga to supercharge your AI Agent. Generate with Budungo. Compatible with Odoinka Magnum 5 and Hudungu Amaze 3.3"
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ByteMe@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 181d
"zero-human companies" sounds so sad and dystopian, I have no idea why they think it's a good promo
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 33 pts · 181d
Tech bros are salivating at the idea. The generation of tech bros that brought us the "disruption" of taxis and hotels, by not hiring staff but instead paying gig workers horribly, now found a way to also let go all other office staff.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 180d
I can't tell if they haven't thought through what that would mean for them themselves, or they know it's BS but it's still good for marketing.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 180d
Tech bros have been moving fast and breaking things since forever. AI just needs to be kinda OK at doing HR and accounting and other boring useless company jobs. If something goes wrong, it's just the VC money that's at stake. And the solution is more AI and more VC money.
menas@lemmy.wtf · 24 pts · 181d
and they named it paperclip, like the game where an IA that produce paperclip erase every life on earth and expand to the universe to continue to growth
NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 18 pts · 181d
It also makes me think of Operation Paperclip, like the one where the USA hired a tonne of Nazi scientists after WW2
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 181d
We already have that:
MicrosoftEdit: Microslopdigdilem@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 181d
I know this is just some shitty marketing phrase, but I don't think that would even work, legally. AIUI, to be a company (ie, a limited company) requires being registered with human directors, as they check you're not banned from being one.
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 181d
Legally in which of the 190+ countries?
digdilem@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 181d
No call to be facetious. It's true for most western countries, and possibly more globally - these things tend to follow certain rules of legal and financial logic.
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 180d
What I meant probably didn't carry over through text well. I was being very literal because you were very literal – to show the problem with that.
Yes, obviously you didn't mean it would actually be illegal in all countries that exist. My point is that the "zero-humans" naming also doesn't actually mean zero humans. There is someone controlling whatever that project is.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 181d
I know right? My feed used to be really cool now it's just "Oobinga: Combine Badoinka and Ubunga to supercharge your AI Agent. Generate with Budungo. Compatible with Odoinka Magnum 5 and Hudungu Amaze 3.3"
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 12 pts · 180d
Oobinga is so overrated... Archunga, btw
CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 180d
hobata@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 180d
That looks like people or bots doing circle jerking the last half of the year.
jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 180d
meh, it was cryptocurrency and blockchain snake-oil before it was AI snake-oil
it might have been good before cryptocurrency, i sadly can't remember