“I'll cut to the chase: it's time to stop listening to anything that Sam Altman has to say. Sam Altman is full of shit, and his reign at OpenAI has been defined far more by its empty promises than any realized dreams.”
#ai
“Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit”
https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/
Nice response by #mkbhd to the self-entitled techbros who think they should be given slack for bad products.
“Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies?”
#technology #reviews #cars #fisker #humane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztFpzKsdeA
Hey US residents, the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments on #Copyright and #AI Artificial Intelligence.
“The [Notice of Inquiry] seeks factual information and views on a number of copyright issues raised by recent advances in generative AI. These issues include the use of copyrighted works to train AI models, the appropriate levels of transparency and disclosure with respect to the use of copyrighted works, the legal status of AI-generated outputs, and the appropriate treatment of AI-generated outputs that mimic personal attributes of human artists.”
Please let them know what you think.
#LawFedi I think this is good time to help folks concerned about AI and the exploitation of artists’ works to craft a credible response to this request.
https://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2023/1017.html
Agreed 100% with this.
“My Prediction
Every company that issued forced relocation ultimatums to their pre-pandemic remote workers will not only lose most (if not all) their top talent in the next year, but they will struggle to hire for at least the coming decade.
The bridge has been burnt, and the well has been poisoned.
> Trust arrives on foot, but leaves on horseback.
Dutch proverb
The companies that issued these ultimatums are not stupid. They had to know that some percentage of their core staff would leave over their forced relocation mandates. Many described it as a “soft layoff” tactic.
But I don’t think they appreciate the breadth or depth of the burn they’ve inflicted. Even if they can keep their ships from sinking, the wound will fester and their culture will not easily recover. This will lead to even more brain drain.
Who could blame anyone for leaving when that happens?”
“Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It”
https://soatok.blog/2023/10/02/return-to-office-is-bullshit-and-everyone-knows-it/
@b05df304 Sounds like a bad video with bad faith arguments. Getting the same vibes as those “let’s keep things civil and work within the system” folks who know damn well that the system is deeply unjust.
Yep. #ReturnToOffice was never about productivity. #RemoteWork #FlexibleWork has obvious benefits that don’t affect work productivity; there never was a cogent argument about which arrangement is better for workers’ well-being while preserving or even increasing work output.
#RTO is about #CommercialRealEstate and the preservation of capital, and it is about satisfying the bosses’ lust for CONTROL. Not just control over workers’ productivity our output, but control over where they are, how they behave, where they can live, and what opportunities they can seek outside of their office. https://tech.lgbt/@deilann/110884985364053944
Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit.
The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit.
They continue walking until they come across a second pile of shit. The second economist turns to the first and says “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The first economist takes the $100 and eats a pile of shit.
Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, “You know, I gave you $100 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $100 to eat shit. I can't help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing.”
“That's not true”, responded the second economist.
“We increased the GDP by $200!”
— u/kspacewalk2 on reddit
#capitalism #economics #gdp
So #Grindr staff chose to #unionize, and company leaders enforced #ReturnToOffice as *retaliation*. Company leaders know #RTO sucks, and they are using it punitively.
They started enforcing #RTO of two days a week, and HALF THEIR STAFF RESIGNED.
The response of the CEO is hilarious. “The team will be smaller than where we were before and where we want to be…So that’ll obviously impact margin in a positive way in the near term.”
That’s like saying “The bad news is I lost my entire left leg. The good news is that I finally got my weight under 160 pounds.”
#unionize #unionStrong #solidarity
“Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule”
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-09-07/grindr-loses-nearly-half-its-staff-to-strict-return-to-work-rule
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