resipsaloquiturMar 13

AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

https://lemmy.world/post/44191287

AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money - Lemmy.World

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Show threadAeonFelis

This idea was most recently floated by Thibault Sottiaux at OpenAI: [Twitter, archive]

I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews how much dedicated inference compute they will have to build with Codex.

Aren’t these candidates asking about token budgets for doing their job? This has nothing to do with compensation…

Mar 15 at 12:33amWeb
Show threadM0oP0oMar 15
They likely don’t know their staff have lives outside of the company and assume they are on board with everything as they are a family.