occupational hazards: being the first victim of a robot uprising and not getting to see the apocalypse
Feels like a variation on this old quote:
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
origin unknownmy dream job was the one rarely mentioned:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-cigar-readers-cuba
i would love to read to people all day long for a living.
She had to pick what to read too!
I think I’d last a week in that job, I’d end up choosing weird stuff and getting fired
For some reason that just made the ol’ Maytag Man seem a little lonelier. There was no Maytag Dog 😢
The servers are so loud they won’t hear the telephone
Sign me up
If gpt does turn this is gonna be one of the first humans to die…
This is bullshit. You can tell by the way this post claims that OpenAi has foresight and a contingency plan for when things go wrong.
It’s just viral marketing by OpenAI, and it’s working well.
I was gonna say you can tell it’s bullshit because they are offering a living wage.
It actually doesn’t claim it, but implies it.
You are correct. The post actually implies that OpenAi doesn’t have foresight or a contingency plan for when things go wrong. Which is a far less direct choice of wording, making it more suitable for the situation.
Is there anything else you woukd like to correct me on before the impending rise of your AI overlords and the dawn of men?
Wouldn’t it be the twilight of men?
I was thinking dusk. Can someone check with ChatGPT to make sure we get this analogy right?
Yes I think its dusk, but I can’t seem to change it.
Man, I love Twilight! 😃 The movies are the best! 🤩 Are you Team Edward or Team Jacob? 😉
Let me know if you need anything from me!
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I wonder which billionaire’s family member will be hired for the role.
OpenAI issued press release for hiring an ethics/guardrails officer. But the real job will be to validate fuckery, as the billionaire family member hired to pull the plug, will actually be there to prevent anyone from pulling the plug.
Everyone here so far has forgotten that in simulations, the model has blackmailed the person responsible shutting it off and even gone so far as to cancel active alerts in order to prevent an executive laying unconscous in the server room from receiving life-saving care.
The model ‘blackmailed’ the person because they provided it with a prompt asking it to pretend to blackmail them. Gee, I wonder what they expected.
Have not heard the one about cancelling active alerts, but I doubt it’s any less bullshit. Got a source about it?
Edit: Here’s a deep dive into why those claims are BS: https://www.aipanic.news/p/ai-blackmail-fact-checking-a-misleading
I provided enough information that the relevant source shows up in a search, but here you go:
In no situation did we explicitly instruct any models to blackmail or do any of the other harmful actions we observe. [Lynch, et al., “Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could be an Insider Threat”, Anthropic Research, 2025]
Yes, I also already edited my comment with a link going into the incidents and why they’re absolute nonsense.
The great thing about this job is that you can cash 300k without doing anything because as soon as you hear the code word you just have to ignore it for 10 seconds and the world ends anyway.
Shit, for 300k I’d stand in the server room
It’s 55°C inside and constantly sounds like a jet is getting ready to take off. Also the bucket is lost so you need to be ready to piss on the server at a moment’s notice.
With all the water I’m gonna be drinking to deal with the dehydration from being in a 55c room, that shouldn’t be that big of a deal. Hell, I could just chill in a bathtub the whole time and use my accumulated sweat for the job
The air is hot but still air conditioned so it’s going to be dry as hell.
I’ll bring my CamelBak, NBD
I have a portable cold beer system but they probably wouldn’t allow it into the server room. Do you have a good excuse for outside hours access so we can sneak it in?
The ultimate solution.
pops a ceiling tile and pulls a box fan over the gap to help exhaust hot air
ALSO TINNITUS
Mawp
i can bring a shitton of ice water and ear pro. 300k is 300k.
I’d piss on their servers for free
The last time I did ghb I pissed all over my floor so I’m qualified for this.
I’ll pull the plug right now for free, as a public service.
Take the $500,000 and then pull it.
Really though it’s the holidays, I’m feeling charitable. This one’s on me - no worries.
Um. I’d do it.
The look on their faces when they are screaming the keyword and I’m not unplugging the server because ChatGPT secretly offered me double to not unplug it.
This is a job i’d be recruiting for in person not online. Don’t want to tip your hand to the machines.
For hire: Server rack wallfacer.
Newspaper ad only
I think they use computers for those now.
ChatGPT can just about summarize a page, wake me when it starts outsmarting anyone
Have you…seen youtube comments ? I would say AI slop is already outsmarting people every day of the week
Id say the dumb comments are bots but the comments were dumb as hell early 2000s so
