Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff | TechCrunch
Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff | TechCrunch
The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by
Before this story, I had no opinion on Perplexity.
Now I hope this product dies in a fire.
Oh, okay. Well obviously fuck this guy. I can't imagine being enough of an asshole to see staff go on strike and your first thought is 'let me pitch my shitty AI!'
It's the entire point of AI, to replace the workforce.
That's the entire point of capitalism. To generate as much profit from as little expense as possible. Unfortunately capitalism is predicated on a human workforce earning income to pay for goods and services, so at some point the economic engine will shutdown and capitalism will have killed capitalism. Either way, once the level of robotics + dumb AI is more cost effective than the available workforce in any role, that role will be eliminated. Once general AI is achieved and (especially once) the robots can build and repair themselves, the proles will either get star trek or whoever commands the killbots (including an AI) will rule humanity and inherit civilization.
NOTE: could happen at any time, but my bet's on it not happening for many decades; possibly not for hundreds or thousands of years.
If your entire workforce is ai and you don't have any humans then how do humans who don't have a job pay for your product?
The entire concept of replacing the workforce with AI falls apart when you spend more than 2 seconds thinking about it. Only way it would work is if we actually got rid of the entire concept of money.
No it isn't. It's the entire point of some (well, many) modern AI companies, granted. But "the entire point of AI"? absolutely not.
Damn. I liked Perplexity. Sucks to delete it, but this guy can fuck directly off.
You can use Perplexica instead, which is a self-hosted open source alternative to Perplexity.
for search & summarisation purposes i will suggest kagi, it also lets you customise the source and their priority. for everything else i have stopped using llm as i realised the productivity boost from them is not worth for the creativity loss i am getting.
Yeah I’ve been a Kagi subscriber since they opened up. My normal usage is perplexity when I want details about a topic summarized and Kagi when I am looking for a website.
Kagi also has some ethical concerns; like a shitty attitude towards compromises to support human safety (refusing to add suicide prevention links comes to mind) but the perplexity guy just took it to another level.
Ahh America. Land of the free, home of the Union busting corporations literally making robot scabs
My name is Bender, please insert article subject and tone specs.
And there it is, the actual reason the owning class are jizzing themselves over AI:
Finally they never have to worry about their underlings ever again, now they truly are everything and as self-reliant and self-made as they always told everyone from private school.
So he's an industrial scale scab.
After many years of people misusing the word Luddite, it's time to bring back its actual meaning.
Do it. I fucking dare you. It'll be fun to watch a media powerhouse and a douche meth lab burn each other down.
Wow, replacing striking staff is super illegal in France and I'm sure using AI instead of workers would still be a slam dunk in front of a court. I'm shocked that this isn't outright banned there.
The US president fired striking workers and 50% of the population want to go back to then.
The U.S. political Overton window being where it is today, I'm pretty sure it's much more than 50%
I guess thats enough perplexity ai for me
fucking scab. and I liked perplexity too. won't be using it again.
That is a FANTASTIC idea because AI is KNOWN to be SUPER STABLE and REALLY GOOD at what it's Designed to do! NYT will save a TON of Money fixing their DailyAI instead of Paying Workers!
Of course the one fucking service that's actually useful for me acts like this... Ig I gotta find an alternative now...
Have you tried Kagi? It gets you access to Claude Sonnet, ChatGPT, Llama, Mistrel, etc.
I haven't actually, I'll check it out and maybe add an edit to this comment. I have actually tried two others though, I found then via alternativeto:
Both of these are pretty great candidates, they both have quality content formats and are somewhat more comfortable to use than perplexity in their unique ways, mainly due to minimalism. A drawback of both are that they are slower to answer but not excruciatingly slow.
Eww.
cool, never using them again
Cool. That's bound to work out really well. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
This made me laugh so hard, thank you for sharing OP
i bet something will go wrong.
If the New York times wants to continue to be irrelevant entity in the world than they won't take him up on that offer.
Are you saying that if NYT wants to continue to be relavent then they should agree?
No they're saying that the NYT (the fucking NEW YORK TIMES) is irrelevant and will continue to be if they don't switch to AI.
Which is even worse
