That’s SpaSex. Porn in natural spas on Mars. Very short videos because they usually die after a few seconds but good enough for me (I don’t last that long either).

I want to believe this is true, so they won my click, but “I heard that some executives and even one unnamed CEO…” is a really low quality article

I hadn’t thought about this, thanks. Personally, if the messaging had been “play with this new thing, see where it helps, report where it doesn’t or where it’s actively harmful”, I would have had a much better time with it. The fact that it was “use AI for everything or else you’ll lose your job to someone else who does” created all sort of perverse incentives to use it for the sake of using it (even where it doesn’t make sense), to lie about the results and to generate more anxiety in others to keep up with your made-up achievements. I think at least some of the wasteful or even harmful ways you describe of using LLMs come from this push to use it and “be more productive” with it.

But you’re right that there are people who became overly reliant and even ruined their lives with LLMs without the tech being forced on them.

I am not a CEO and I hope this AI bubble bursts already.

That said, if I were a CEO using all possible tokens while they are heavily subsidized and tightening the purse when they get more expensive does not sound like the worst strategy to me. You get all your teams to build some expertise and (hopefully) get a sense of where the technology might have some ROI.

If only they had presented it this way (and not “AI therefore layoffs”) probably a lot of us would hate it much less now.

To be fair, the prompt was “what shade of gold should the curtains be in my new ballroom?”

[ Reasoning… The user wants me to initiate a war with Iran… Firing 2000 missiles on random objectives… Done. Back to undressing kids on X… ]

I’ve seen it happen! She… lives in Canada, you wouldn’t know her

Not an expert at all, but I think to an extent this already happens with the current system in most countries, and it would probably need to be done much more now. Not that Automation pays more taxes, but that having employees generally qualifies companies for tax breaks.

For instance, when Amazon said “we’re going to open a new HQ”, Cities and States tripped over themselves to try and give them the largest tax breaks. But that was under the assumption that the HQ would give jobs to tens of thousand of people, not to 5 data scientist and a massive, energy-hungry data center.