Next thing they’ll make them live in AI towns.

what’s the conversion rate of claude tokens to USD? trying to budget for my mcdonald’s tonight

In the olden days, this would be known as writing a rubber cheque.

This is a good way to pay shitty offshore code churn centers and then claim the code they write is AI generated. Which we’ve already seen before. So it’s not unheard of.

Fake news AI companies don’t have employees, they already automated everything. /s

I owe my soul to the company store!

I’m thinking about the exchange rate with Shrute bucks.

Back in the day, I did see some cryptocurrency companies try to pay staff with their cryptocurrency. It’s actually a good selection mechanism for the true believers.

modern day company scrip, but even more useless

I mean the tokens basically represent time to use a slave, so tell the slave to do something profitable with the tokens

AI companies are paying in tokens to 1) generate more users for their shitty product and 2) save money.

Those are not signs of a healthy, growing industry. Those look like the last desperate attempts to right the sinking ship.

Lots of talk on microblog fedi about how this is because they’re insolvent / don’t have the liquid assets.

Company scrip that can’t even be exchanged for overpriced products? Exactly what we needed in this dystopian timeline.

The least they could do is pay in graphics cards and ram