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AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 day ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/7579135

I owe my SOUL․md to the company store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoCzQ-va94&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260312-ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money - podcast

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[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

??????? That’s not how getting paid works??????????

[–] inari@piefed.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Can't pay 'em if you got no revenue

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Business Insider article this article references makes a big stretch to try to frame it as compensation:

In other words, access to AI may soon matter as much as access to a fat salary and juicy equity awards. As a coder in the AI era, if you don't have access to massive compute, you might end up producing far less software than your colleagues, threatening your career prospects.

But what they're talking about is pretty clearly a business expense and not payment, because it's something they only get to use at work in order to do their job.

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That’s stupid. That’s like saying “instead of paying you a livable wage, here’s some pants! I mean you need to wear pants for work right? You can use them at home too!”

Mf really out here thinking we use AI let alone wear pants in our own dang home. We want to cold hard cash! 💶💶💶!!! Lol

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Pretty much literally what company stores used to do/what they want to do again. Except pants were an actual, useful, tangible thing.