How Block is replacing middle management with an AI "world model"

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8 points·achalxyz··7 comments

Maybe you can disrupt some markets, but do not expect a strong position in the value chain if you depend on external AI providers that can extract all gained wisdom from your calls and have more execution power.

Agreed. (Reasonable) humans also don't ask for 20-50% raises year on year, but replacing workers with AI places incredible pricing risk in your business operation. AI may be cheaper in the short term, but the ultimate goal of AI companies is to capture as much value as possible, and they will have no problems pricing AI tooling as close to the replaced human salaries as possible.

The major Ai providers (frontier models) have contract clauses and marketing copy that specifically say they do not use your data or sessions for their training.

Microslop / GitHub is a notable deviation here.

True, but I'd be very hesitant to trust such statements/contract clauses.

Why would a company that is not in the same line of business risk the lawsuits and brand damage?

This belief you hold doesn't make sense from any logical perspective

The lawsuit risk isn't huge. First, most people probably wouldn't be able to discover this has been done. Second, most people wouldn't be able to afford to sue, and the company can just settle with those who can.

I'm also not sure that the risk of brand damage is that compelling. A whole lot of companies misbehave and don't suffer enough to stop their behavior because of it.

genAI companies particularly. Overall, the things they have already said and done strongly indicate to me that they are not trustworthy. That's the main source of my doubt. Why would I expect them to be any different tomorrow than they were yesterday?

Are you neglecting the b2b perspective?

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