“You can spend your scrip at the company store.”

“Sorry, my mortgage servicer doesn’t accept AI slop as payment, so I’ll just take the money”

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.

Edit:

Also, isn’t this literally a plot point from Silicon Valley?

Like, their desperation move to get funding at some point was handing out compute tokens, but the only people who wanted to buy it was their competitors because non of the companies had customers?

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: Slavery

FIFY

So let me get this straight. Companies were like “instead of paying one senior dev 300k and 5 junior devs 150k, we can get rid of all the junior devs and give the senior dev AI to do all of the legwork thus saving us 750k.”

And then they found out that AI costs money. So instead of ponying up the 100k in tokens for the senior dev to to their job, they are saying “Hey senior dev, we are taking away your bonus and replacing it with tokens! You can take it or be out of a job, because we refuse to keep anybody on board who doesn’t use AI to replace 5 junior devs”

So these cheap fucks saved 750k, and are upset with the fact that they might only save 650k?

While also destroying the planet to generate shitty code.

I fucking hate this time line.

Now, some tech job candidates have begun asking about what AI compute budget they will have access to if they decide to join. “I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews how much dedicated inference compute they will have to build with Codex,” Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead at OpenAI’s Codex, the startup’s AI coding service, wrote on X recently.

Big fucking bullshit. No one ever ask for “AI compute budget”, people wants money. Not your coffee, not your foosball game, money.

Guess what you can buy with money? Yeah, that compute time, if desired.

What a fucking load of bullshit.

I remember when silicon valley used to build products that would help people improve their lives.

The reaper or capitalist enshittification comes for all industries eventually.

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?

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.

They are going full panic mode now. The crash has already begun.

Salary is 64GB of virtual ram

Hey you know what I could use to buy compute or literally anything else

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…

It’s like a grift card, only redeemable by the employer with your time, without the card.