Next thing they’ll make them live in AI towns.
In the olden days, this would be known as writing a rubber cheque.
Bouncy bouncy
what’s the conversion rate of claude tokens to USD? trying to budget for my mcdonald’s tonight
If you write 75 lines of shitty code, they will give you a Big Mac.
i have whole git repos full of shitty code, free Big Macs for life!
I guess 5.31 NFT?
Somewhere between the conversation rate of Schrute Bucks to Standley Nickles.
modern day company scrip, but significantly more useless
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.
I owe my soul to the company store!
Lots of talk on microblog fedi about how this is because they’re insolvent / don’t have the liquid assets.
I’m so looking forward to funding their bailout via my taxes.
The least they could do is pay in graphics cards and ram
Company scrip that can’t even be exchanged for overpriced products? Exactly what we needed in this dystopian timeline.
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
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.
I’m thinking about the exchange rate with Shrute bucks.
I mean the tokens basically represent time to use a slave, so tell the slave to do something profitable with the tokens and pocket the surplus value
