“I wonder if the future looks something more like Universal Basic Compute than Universal basic income, and everybody gets a slice of GPT7’s compute and they can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research, but what you get is not dollars but this productivity slice, you own part of the productivity.” - Sam Altman
Man who basically needs chatGPT to replace the world economy for his company to succeed imagines chatGPT taking over the world. Who would have thunk.
Getting paid in monopoly money is just the same.
Every fucking day he manages to do or say some stupid shit that makes the news and has the whole internet laughing at him
EVEN MORE SO THAN DONALD TRUMP
The article also points out that this is straight up illegal, but these guys are above the law so fuck us normal people ig:
The idea is that instead of getting paid dollars to work for an AI company … you get paid in AI tokens. The units that the AI vendor charges API access in. You have to use these tokens in your job, too.
This is not in any way a “new” idea. It’s company scrip — a company’s own made-up money that you can only spend in the company store. Company scrip was always just a scam, and paying workers in company scrip has been illegal in the US since 1938. But you know these guys don’t care.
Tech bros just keep reinventing old problems.
Just as soon as my rent is accepted in compute tokens…
Any sane person die of embarrassment after saying something like that in public. At the very least, they would be fired/dropped as a business partner. What the fuck is going on with the world when these are our “captains of industry”?
Than why you are getting $$$?
Besides the fact that its fucked up to try to pay people in what is slightly less valuable than v bucks, how do their employees not have free access to chatgpt???
Also in his quote about currency being a slice of compute… In his perfect world where AI can do anything, why the fuck do people still have to donate compute for cancer research? That is so fucking stupid
He basically just told them that he wants to pay them in hopes and prayers. His hopes and prayers.
I’d rather get paid in shit. At least I can use shit as fertilizer.
No. But, also, HELL NO! And, to clarify, FUCK YOU!
“I wonder if” reads as “AAAARGH!!! WE’RE CRASHING!!!”
It really is delusional. “Well, we’ve spent a shitload of other people’s money on data centers that don’t have a useful purpose. How do we dig ourselves out of this hole? I know! We’ll make it like cryptocurrency… somehow. That’s the ticket!”
hmmmm are they running so low on cash they need to stop bleeding on their payroll…
