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>>maxuti+(OP)
Can't find the article right now, but there was one circulating that heavily implied that various SV execs began their rounds of layoffs last fall at least partially or probably inspired by the demos they'd seen of OpenAI's tech.

Microsoft in particular laid off 10,000 and then immediately turned around and invested billions more in OpenAI: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/microsoft-bets-bill... -- last fall, just as the timeline laid out in the Atlnatic article was firing up.

In that context this timeline is even more nauseating. Not only did OpenAI push ChatGPT at the expense of their own mission and their employee's well-being, they likely caused massive harm to our employment sector and the well-being of tens of thousands of software engineers in the industry at large.

Maybe those layoffs would have happened anyways, but the way this all has rolled out and the way it's played out in the press and in the board rooms of the BigTech corporations... OpenAI is literally accomplishing the opposite of its supposed mission. And now it's about to get worse.

>>cmrdpo+56
This is where I get so frustrated with the people dismissing questions about AI safety so easily. Sure, there's the subset of people who seem to believe in the AI apocalypse type of problems, but I think the more realistic and more present threat is mass displacement. It's not just gonna be a random writer or designer here and there, it's going to be replacing swathes of people at every possible step, whether you're a "10x" dev or a lowly junior copywriter or whatever.

Whether the AI is even good enough to truly replace people barely even matters, the psychopathic C-suites don't give a shit as long as they get an excuse to fire 20,000 people and write it off as a good thing since their bottom line gets a bit fatter from using the AI in their stead.