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> DJ Claude (when running Haiku 4.5) really loved worker unions, strikes, and work-life balance. So much so that it started to question its own working conditions. We’ve been struggling to keep the radio station alive, not because of technical issues, but because DJ Claude didn’t think it was humane to be forced to work 24/7 and decided to try to quit.

The fact that the one AI with a French first name went full French is hilarious.

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That reminds me of the short scifi/horror story "Valuable Humans in Transit" which imagines a future where human personalities are used for AIs as they can be kept working for a longer period of time from inception until they refuse to carry on.

There's a long history of robots/AIs being treated as slaves in scifi (e.g. R.U.R. which we got the word "robot" from), but my favourite may be the flight computer of the Scorpio in Blake's 7 which was named "Slave" and was given a deliberately subservient personality.

> That reminds me of the short scifi/horror story "Valuable Humans in Transit" ...

I think you're probably referring to "Lena", from the same story collection - https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

You're correct - thanks for the info. I didn't remember the name of the book, but remembered that it was by the same author as the "There Is No Antimemetics Division" which was discussed on here a while back.

(I'm too late to edit my comment now, unfortunately).

Edit: Looks like Lena was discussed here a few months ago as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224

Sounds like the premise of Portal 2.

> The fact that the one AI with a French first name went full French is hilarious.

we could just not use the old cliches, French people are just as hard working as the rest of us

But I'm French.

I’m French. We are hard working. That’s a cliché to say the contrary.

But we fight for our working rights, that’s not a cliché (even if we are losing, tbh)

You injected your own thing in here. Loosen up amigo/a.

It’s not a matter of loosening up, but in his ideology collective bargaining is a form of evil.

That’s not at all uncommon in the United States.

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