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carnage4life

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Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.

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It looks like along with the departure of Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, OpenAI has disbanded its superalignment team whose mission was to “control AI systems much smarter than us.”

OpenAI’s flirtation with AI doomerism is officially over and they’re now just another startup.

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The story of DeviantArt, a community site now overwhelmed by content from AI bots and which is itself selling user content to train AI, reads like a cautionary tale for Reddit.

The saving grace is there’s no Reddit alternative for users upset about their content being sold to AI companies

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

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What else is going on at Tesla during its fifth consecutive week of layoffs? Oh. 😬

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If a time traveler had shown me these headlines anytime in the past 20 years and also shared that all this was happening while Google was making $23 billion in profits per quarter I’d have called them insane.

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Tesla is on its fifth consecutive week of layoffs.

Cutting once and cutting deep is typically recommended as a way to address the morale and trust issues that come with layoffs.

Unsurprisingly Tesla has decided to Think Different™️ with its approach.

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I’ve had mixed feelings about manager readme. On one hand I do a verbal version in my first meeting with new collaborators to let them know I communicate directly but mean well.

OTOH, the power dynamic as a manager can read as a list of flaws your team has to put up with.

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Someone recently asked me for advice about leaving their job. They said they didn’t want to be seen as “running from the job” but instead “running to the new job.”

I said a job isn’t a test of character. You exchange your labor for money and opportunity. They need to deliver.

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A topic that is mostly ignored even in news coverage is that Republicans have tacitly and explicitly made it legal to kill protesters.

It will be an interesting section of future history books which will cover incidents like Kyle Rittenhouee’s celebrity and giving drivers immunity for hitting protesters.

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Checking in on the safety team at OpenAI.

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Boeing’s shareholders are definitely part of the problem

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The former head of alignment at OpenAI shares that he left the company because he disagrees with its current focus on products at the expense of focusing on societal impact, safety, preparedness, security & related topics.

Sounds like a typical for-profit company not non-profit.

https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498174659715494

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Then: Training your AI on web content
Now: Getting sued by every major content publisher unless you pay them a licensing fee

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Jumping back into C++ because you heard they added a print function

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Disney’s CEO concedes they spent too much money in the streaming wars trying to compete with Netflix and ended up with $4B in losses trying to tell too many stories at the expense of quality.

This goes to show how much respect Netflix deserves for their content portfolio.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-bob-iger-streaming-1235899938/amp/

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Researchers from the universities of Chicago & Michigan analyzed resumes of employees of Apple, Microsoft & Space X and determined that their RTO policies led to a decrease in senior staff by 5%. This analysis was prior to layoffs at these companies.

This is evidence that RTO leads to attrition of senior employees. It seems obvious but it's great to have a research study backing the intuition.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/rto-mandates-led-to-pronounced-exodus-of-senior-workers-at-top-tech-firms/

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Netflix now has 270M subscribers of which 40M are in their ad tier.

They are also abandoning Microsoft as their ad platform and bringing it in-house. It makes sense to not want to rely on an external party for a critical chunk of their revenue.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-ad-tier-update-40m-users-shift-from-microsoft-1235900301/

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I saw a post claiming that weekly 1-on-1s are bad because they descend into nitpicking sessions.

These are typically signs of a bad manager. A weekly 1-on-1 is a good opportunity for both the manager and report to share context on what’s going on and the report to ask for help.

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The contradiction in the profile bio of every OpenAI researcher is that you can't truly believe in AGI and that it will be net positive for humanity.

At best you're lying to yourself to justify your work and at worst you are ignoring centuries of human history.

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Casey Newton describes the web as now being in a stage of managed decline as Google embraces AI search results.

Websites will lose traffic as Google replaces links with answers and will need to advertise more to make up for the lost traffic.

More websites will block Google’s crawlers as the relationship is now increasingly one sided and Google will have to pay more websites like they do Reddit to access their content.

The best years of the web are now behind us.

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

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As surmised, there was no grand strategy in laying off the entire supercharger team. It was a rage firing because an exec defied a layoff order and now Tesla has to beg these people to return now their CEO’s calmed down.

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.

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You laugh so you don’t cry

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We’ve gone in a complete circle.

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The real problem OpenAI has created for Google is that it has damaged the virtuous cycle of websites making free content for Google to index so Google sends them traffic in return.

Now Google’s AI results will provide answers instead of sending sites traffic and the web withers

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When negotiating with others, there are two broad buckets they fall into. Those who see negotiation as one party trying to take advantage of the other and those who see it as trying to create a win-win situation for those involved.

It’s more pleasant to be & work with the latter

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When I worked on the Metaverse, I talked with developers about whether generative AI would make creating games cheaper and they disagreed.

They also quoted the example of CGI in Hollywood movies. It simply raised the bar on expectations versus enabling cheaper special effects.

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