Quite recently, lots of people were calling on almost-striking longshoremen to be replaced by machines. How is replacing tech workers with AI any different?
It's different because automation of ports actually works
Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff
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#32I find it a bit odd that Perplexity still have a human CEO.
You don’t have to have faith in a product to market it effectively.
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#33[dupe] (because TechCrunch changed the url midday)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044956
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New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
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#34Honestly, the fact that he posted it the way he did, publicly in a tweet suggests he wasn’t trying to undermine workers but rather wanted to be seen as supporting election coverage. Based on his past interviews, he seems quite autistic in ways. But really I think this could have been a good opportunity to strike some licensing deal in exchange for technology, had he been a bit more discreet
Why should he care about another company's workers? He should care about his own company and workers and gaining them new customers.
Because in a ruthless cuthroat world everyone but the very worst of people lose out, and even then the very worst tend to lose too since the whole distribution shifts down, not just the mean/mode/median but the min/max as well.
ultimately, if you create a system where the only tools left are those also avaliable to the stupid, and therefore skills the stupid have an edge in, given a lifetime of experience, then your whole system becomes run by / dominated by these types.
toxic behaviour and violenece in general are tools of the stupid, for only the stupid would fail to see mutually benefifial alternatives.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know people get a chuckle out of it, but does it not make more sense to have CEO LLM that will make decisions without regard for its own needs, self-interest, conflicts and so on? Honestly, the longer this particular debate rages on, I think shareholders are looking the wrong set of humans to replace.
Liability. Till we solve this, we cant really give AI any real responsibilities.
Human CEOs generally aren't held liable for their actions, so why would AI need to be? Once again, I think we're just smoothing out a wrinkle here.
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#37NYT is going to respond with a lawsuit
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#38Roboscabs!
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#39“ The NYT and Perplexity aren’t exactly on the best of terms right now. The Times sent Perplexity a cease and desist letter in October over the startup’s scraping of articles for use by its AI models.”
Just trying to smooth things over now… in the most supervillain way possible.
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#40Well, at least one CEO is being honest about the owning class's end goal with AI: a new source of cheap labor, but this time without entities that can negotiate.