Arguably, this tells you everything you need to know.
It’s not about empowering anybody, it’s all about expecting individuals to increase their productivity even more while demanding they accept less.
AI is all about maximizing capitalistic exploitation.
“safer” and dumber
It has gotten so, so, so much worse. Instead of OSS options catching up to ChatGPT, ChatGPT has sunk to OSS levels… but with puritanical prudishness on top of it all.
ChatGPT is basically irrelevant now.
I remember Sam Altman’s interview where he was going about how the funds from AI breakthroughs should fund UBI programs and be used towards the betterment of mankind in general.
So much for that I guess.
just another vapid tech bro
The Wallstreet Journal did a really good podcast interviewing Kenyans who worked for Sama on this particular engagement. Most of them said it affected their lives deeply, one said his wife almost left him as he just “wasn’t the person she’d married”. I think she ended up coming back after he quit at least, but yeesh. Another said he pulled away from his young daughter after reading prompts about child sexual abuse. Can you imagine that level of mental health hit?
