4 comments

  • JohnFen 9 hours ago ago

    > "Stop hiring humans" was never a sentence about humans at large, it was a sentence about a category of work.

    I don't believe a word of it. It seems more likely that they are one of the many genAI companies who basically view people with a kind of contempt. I mean, that's exactly what their advertising was advertising.

    I think they see that their public stance could make them a target of the ever-growing backlash and are trying to deflect it.

    • WCSTombs 8 hours ago ago

      > they are one of the many genAI companies who basically view people with a kind of contempt.

      It's absolutely this, and they're not even hiding it. It's everywhere in their public presence.

      - Their now-retired marketing slogan is, of course, openly contemptuous towards people.

      - Although I don't know all the marketing jargon, if I got it right, their pitch is to have LLMs churn out marketing emails - again, contemptuous toward whomever's on the other end.

      - This very release is itself AI slop - total contempt toward us, the readers.

    • minimaxir 9 hours ago ago

      It is weird for them to simultaneously a) apologize and b) brag about the marketing ROI of the trolling.

  • colesantiago 9 hours ago ago

    Looks like rage baiting the general public all to get known for not hiring humans and to ultimately anger the public more about AI wasn't a good strategy.

    A future Roko's basilisk might pleased but not before getting marked on a checklist by a certain super mario brother.