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They should be collecting signatures from employees at xAI. I think they're probably most likely to fill the space left by Anthropic.
by spuz 7mo ago
They should be collecting signatures from employees at xAI. I think they're probably most likely to fill the space left by Anthropic.
- ocdtrekkie 7mo agoEveryone knows anyone who signs this from xAI will be a former employee by tomorrow.
- dalemhurley 7mo agoMy guess is their HR is already monitoring it with instant termination processes in place.
- spuz 7mo agoYou can sign the form anonymously.
- ocdtrekkie 7mo agoBoth the automated verification methods depend on Google servers and Google can almost certainly retrieve that data if they want to regardless of if the signers or verifiers delete it.
- ocdtrekkie 7mo agoYou're assuming a lot about Elon's ability to assemble and execute a process competently. They will probably end up hiring people off this list and firing them later. I think what is much more interesting is what OpenAI and Google will do. There's probably some threshold of signatories where the companies in question do not fire everyone when they decide they want the DoD's business, the question will be how many people have to sign to cross it... and will enough people sign. I don't think Google would bat an eye at firing 500 people to secure a DoD contract, but would they fire 5,000?
- xvector 7mo agoThere is a specific kind of person that joins xAI over the other companies and it is definitely not a moral one.
- clouedoc 7mo agoIt's hard to deny an offer to become a millionaire in the next 3 years if you just hang tight at xAI, especially if you don't have any offers from competing AI labs. Also, LLMs are converging into an easy-to-replicate commodity. It doesn't matter much who wastes their money on you to build them.
- xvector 7mo agoIf you can get an offer at xAI you can get an offer anywhere. All the labs and top players will make you a millionaire in 3 years. xAI is a pure choice. Their people have the ability to work at Anthropic but choose xAI.
- clouedoc 7mo agoI am sure some people can. I got pretty far in the interview process at xAI, but couldn't get anyone at other AI labs to even reply my emails, though... (I dropped out at the end because there were issues with HR not wanting to hire in certain geos, and me not wanting to relocate to the USA or London)
- belter 7mo ago[dead]
- dalemhurley 7mo agoXAI has already announced they are 100% in https://x.ai/news/us-gov-dept-of-war https://x.ai/news/us-gov-dept-of-war
- spuz 7mo agoAll the more reason to collect their employees' signatures.
- aeon_ai 7mo agoThis kind of screams desperation, but I guess that's what happens when you're niche AI.
- verdverm 7mo agoniche is a polite way to put it
- actionfromafar 7mo agoBot-ique Mechahitler.
- nailer 7mo agoNo. The US needs automated weapons China will attack Taiwan, Hamas will go on another murder rampage.