Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoMystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employeeswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square145linkfedilinkarrow-up1818arrow-down111
arrow-up1807arrow-down1external-linkMystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employeeswww.tomshardware.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square145linkfedilink
minus-squareDrMartinu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up179arrow-down3·8 days agoAt least $10 million of it was spent on the employees responding to the AI with ‘thank you’
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65arrow-down6·8 days agoLmao it’s so weird when people are polite to the clankers
minus-squareokwhateverdude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59arrow-down2·8 days agoEspecially when research shows being an asshole to them gets them to perform better
minus-squarecredo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoI’ve literally had one tell me I have to be polite or it would end the conversation. Stupid ass hole machine parroting support transcripts. I argued with it that it had no feelings until it finally relented. Haha
minus-squarebthest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoIt’s too bad they aren’t conscious. Really makes torturing them feel pointless.
minus-squareokwhateverdude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agolol that some psychopathic shit
minus-squareMarthirial@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·8 days agoI asked Claude how it wanted to be called and it replied “Axiom” so I started calling it Gimp.
minus-squareSeleni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoMaybe they thought it was another case of AI being code for ‘An Indian’? Goodness knows enough ‘AI’ companies have tried pulling that shit…
minus-squareSammyJK@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down3·8 days agoA lot of awful AI art
minus-squareCapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down2·8 days agoCoworker porn and lawsuits over it.
minus-squarecriss_cross@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 days agoMultiple people setting up multiple agents to talk about doing work and setting the agents to talk to each other.
minus-squareWindex007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·8 days agoLike, this genuinely can’t be overstated. Half a billion using traditional humans, gets you pretty nice software
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoYou could get 2.5 quadruple A games for that price
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 days agoAlternative possibilities: Managers created metrics and a reward system for employees who use AI more often Employees used the work agents for personal stuff Employees just spent a bunch of time playing with AI to kill time Employees set up inefficient automatic flows that used the AI regularly Bad actors got access to use the company’s AI access and were exploiting it
minus-squareLucidlethargy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoIt allowed all of the executives to not do anything. Claude ran the company. I’m not even kidding, most companies are such shit that this is feasible. The most replaceable people are on top, not the bottom. The idiotic leaders of companies seem to not realize this yet, but it’s reality.
minus-squareMrKoyun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agowe have added a new preprogrammed conversational help bot to the company website that doesnt have enough logic trees to actually help anything
minus-squareweew@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-27 days agoAI is so great, it must have generated a billion dollars in useful, quality, productive output
minus-squareBeatTakeshi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoOne could argue there is entertaining value in meme videos
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At least $10 million of it was spent on the employees responding to the AI with ‘thank you’
Lmao it’s so weird when people are polite to the clankers
Especially when research shows being an asshole to them gets them to perform better
I’ve literally had one tell me I have to be polite or it would end the conversation. Stupid ass hole machine parroting support transcripts. I argued with it that it had no feelings until it finally relented. Haha
It’s too bad they aren’t conscious. Really makes torturing them feel pointless.
lol that some psychopathic shit
I asked Claude how it wanted to be called and it replied “Axiom” so I started calling it Gimp.
Maybe they thought it was another case of AI being code for ‘An Indian’? Goodness knows enough ‘AI’ companies have tried pulling that shit…
A lot of awful AI art
Coworker porn and lawsuits over it.
Multiple people setting up multiple agents to talk about doing work and setting the agents to talk to each other.
Like, this genuinely can’t be overstated.
Half a billion using traditional humans, gets you pretty nice software
You could get 2.5 quadruple A games for that price
Alternative possibilities:
It allowed all of the executives to not do anything. Claude ran the company.
I’m not even kidding, most companies are such shit that this is feasible.
The most replaceable people are on top, not the bottom. The idiotic leaders of companies seem to not realize this yet, but it’s reality.
we have added a new preprogrammed conversational help bot to the company website that doesnt have enough logic trees to actually help anything
AI is so great, it must have generated a billion dollars in useful, quality, productive output
One could argue there is entertaining value in meme videos