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Sam Altman of OpenAI says the company wants to concentrate on replacing human workers, not making dimes from selling advertising. (stratechery.com)
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“I am more excited to figure out how we can charge people a lot of money for a really great automated software engineer or other kind of agent than I am making some number of dimes with an advertising-based model.”

Some people will argue this isn't replacing humans, just creating additional jobs for AI, and the human ones are safe. Somehow, I doubt it.

Also, Meta & Google are hardly making 'dimes' from selling advertising.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago

So they're saying the evil part out loud then.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

this should be good thing but instead it just means any people replaced will have harder time surviving. Our society across the planet is fucking broken if technological advancement means things get worse for people because of it.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m all for this as long as we’re only replacing the human CEOs.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

That's even one of the few jobs LLMs can do competently. It's basically correlating a bunch of information compiled by someone else and saying some nice platitudes about it to appease the shareholders. Once in a while a decision is needed, when there's no consensus coming from "below" but I doubt a good LLM (or even a fair coin throw) would be worse than the average CEO at it.