What could possibly go wrong?
Before this story, I had no opinion on Perplexity.
Now I hope this product dies in a fire.
After many years of people misusing the word Luddite, it’s time to bring back its actual meaning.
Oh, okay. Well obviously fuck this guy. I can’t imagine being enough of an asshole to see staff go on strike and your first thought is ‘let me pitch my shitty AI!’
It’s the entire point of AI, to replace the workforce.
That’s the entire point of capitalism. To generate as much profit from as little expense as possible. Unfortunately capitalism is predicated on a human workforce earning income to pay for goods and services, so at some point the economic engine will shutdown and capitalism will have killed capitalism. Either way, once the level of robotics + dumb AI is more cost effective than the available workforce in any role, that role will be eliminated. Once general AI is achieved and (especially once) the robots can build and repair themselves, the proles will either get star trek or whoever commands the killbots (including an AI) will rule humanity and inherit civilization.
NOTE: could happen at any time, but my bet’s on it not happening for many decades; possibly not for hundreds or thousands of years.
If your entire workforce is ai and you don’t have any humans then how do humans who don’t have a job pay for your product?
The entire concept of replacing the workforce with AI falls apart when you spend more than 2 seconds thinking about it. Only way it would work is if we actually got rid of the entire concept of money.
They’re not thinking that far ahead. They’re thinking “how can I make the lines go up this quarter?”
No doubt many of them understand that you need people with enough money to buy products or the economy stagnates. But they don’t see it as their problem right now. Their problem right now is to make the line go up by any means they can. It’s similar to how the owners must understand that climate change will fuck everyone if left unchecked, but they don’t see it as their own problem right now, so none of them take any steps to avoid disaster. Capitalism doesn’t contain mechanisms for coordinating actions towards the greater good. Instead it creates many “tragedy of the commons” type situations.
Corps have been complaining for years already that people aren’t buying enough. Millenials are killing this industry and that industry because we don’t consume enough - “enough” being whatever level they’ve decided we should consume. They feel entitled to our dollars, whether or not their product or service is any good.
If they were smart, companies would lower prices to be more competitive and incentivize people to buy more. Instead they’ve doubled down and posted armed guards at the store exits to intimidate the customers they have left. They’ve slipped data collection into every interaction. It’s pretty obvious they’re not playing the long game anymore.
No it isn’t. It’s the entire point of some (well, many) modern AI companies, granted. But “the entire point of AI”? absolutely not.
I guess thats enough perplexity ai for me
Cool. That’s bound to work out really well. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
So he’s an industrial scale scab.
fucking scab. and I liked perplexity too. won’t be using it again.
Eww.
Of course the one fucking service that’s actually useful for me acts like this… Ig I gotta find an alternative now…
Have you tried Kagi? It gets you access to Claude Sonnet, ChatGPT, Llama, Mistrel, etc.
Does it do what Perplexity does?
Cross picket lines? /s
I haven’t actually, I’ll check it out and maybe add an edit to this comment. I have actually tried two others though, I found then via alternativeto:
Both of these are pretty great candidates, they both have quality content formats and are somewhat more comfortable to use than perplexity in their unique ways, mainly due to minimalism. A drawback of both are that they are slower to answer but not excruciatingly slow.
Ahh America. Land of the free, home of the Union busting corporations literally making robot scabs
My name is Bender, please insert article subject and tone specs.
That is a FANTASTIC idea because AI is KNOWN to be SUPER STABLE and REALLY GOOD at what it’s Designed to do! NYT will save a TON of Money fixing their DailyAI instead of Paying Workers!
And there it is, the actual reason the owning class are jizzing themselves over AI:
Finally they never have to worry about their underlings ever again, now they truly are everything and as self-reliant and self-made as they always told everyone from private school.
Wow, replacing striking staff is super illegal in France and I’m sure using AI instead of workers would still be a slam dunk in front of a court. I’m shocked that this isn’t outright banned there.
The US president fired striking workers and 50% of the population want to go back to then.
The U.S. political Overton window being where it is today, I’m pretty sure it’s much more than 50%
Well it is generally believed to be much less but based on turnout 50% are reaganites.
Do it. I fucking dare you. It’ll be fun to watch a media powerhouse and a douche meth lab burn each other down.
