Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.
They love money. AI was good money for a while. Or at least it looked like good money until you looked at it for longer than 3 seconds, which greatly surpasses the average attention span of an executive. And also the average executive’s iq.
There are legitimately high value problems that AI works well against. But ungoverned proliferation has a net negative ROI across complex and difficult to measure areas.
When applied expertly, it works great. When blindly handed to your entire workforce as a panacea, not so much
They loved it too much and now it costs more than paying a living wage to a human being. The end goal of AI was always to cut cost and layoff people. The best sabotage right now is to setup a script that constantly prompts an LLM for something useless. I would recommend it if it didn’t waste so much energy and clean water. But it would send a message. AI is not cheaper, it never was. Even with today’s outrageous token prices, LLM companies are still bleeding money per user. It will only get more expensive as data center contracts fall through and the investment craze fizzles out.
I would recommend it if it didn’t waste so much energy and clean water.
I wouldn’t. It’s not possible to do meaningful validation of a process that has AI in the loop because it is not repeatable and there is no reliable explainability. So for anything where money or lives are at stake, it’s not worth a shit. Same goes for anything where the company is held liable for false statements.
I’m confused. I thought employers loved AI and it was the future.
They love money. AI was good money for a while. Or at least it looked like good money until you looked at it for longer than 3 seconds, which greatly surpasses the average attention span of an executive. And also the average executive’s iq.
Mixed bag.
There are legitimately high value problems that AI works well against. But ungoverned proliferation has a net negative ROI across complex and difficult to measure areas.
When applied expertly, it works great. When blindly handed to your entire workforce as a panacea, not so much
They loved it too much and now it costs more than paying a living wage to a human being. The end goal of AI was always to cut cost and layoff people. The best sabotage right now is to setup a script that constantly prompts an LLM for something useless. I would recommend it if it didn’t waste so much energy and clean water. But it would send a message. AI is not cheaper, it never was. Even with today’s outrageous token prices, LLM companies are still bleeding money per user. It will only get more expensive as data center contracts fall through and the investment craze fizzles out.
the AI companies are hoping the ones buying the LLM subscriptions to be the suckers and losers.
I wouldn’t. It’s not possible to do meaningful validation of a process that has AI in the loop because it is not repeatable and there is no reliable explainability. So for anything where money or lives are at stake, it’s not worth a shit. Same goes for anything where the company is held liable for false statements.
I meant as a means of corporate sabotage.
Someone’s been reading the HR posters.