Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff | TechCrunch
Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff | TechCrunch
The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by
Eww.
fucking scab. and I liked perplexity too. won't be using it again.
Of course the one fucking service that's actually useful for me acts like this... Ig I gotta find an alternative now...
What could possibly go wrong?
If the New York times wants to continue to be irrelevant entity in the world than they won't take him up on that offer.
Are you saying that if NYT wants to continue to be relavent then they should agree?
No they're saying that the NYT (the fucking NEW YORK TIMES) is irrelevant and will continue to be if they don't switch to AI.
Which is even worse
Oh, okay. Well obviously fuck this guy. I can't imagine being enough of an asshole to see staff go on strike and your first thought is 'let me pitch my shitty AI!'
It's the entire point of AI, to replace the workforce.
If your entire workforce is ai and you don't have any humans then how do humans who don't have a job pay for your product?
The entire concept of replacing the workforce with AI falls apart when you spend more than 2 seconds thinking about it. Only way it would work is if we actually got rid of the entire concept of money.
That's the entire point of capitalism. To generate as much profit from as little expense as possible. Unfortunately capitalism is predicated on a human workforce earning income to pay for goods and services, so at some point the economic engine will shutdown and capitalism will have killed capitalism. Either way, once the level of robotics + dumb AI is more cost effective than the available workforce in any role, that role will be eliminated. Once general AI is achieved and (especially once) the robots can build and repair themselves, the proles will either get star trek or whoever commands the killbots (including an AI) will rule humanity and inherit civilization.
NOTE: could happen at any time, but my bet's on it not happening for many decades; possibly not for hundreds or thousands of years.
After many years of people misusing the word Luddite, it's time to bring back its actual meaning.
Ahh America. Land of the free, home of the Union busting corporations literally making robot scabs
My name is Bender, please insert article subject and tone specs.
Cool. That's bound to work out really well. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?