r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 14h ago

Artificial Intelligence Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
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u/Amon7777 13h ago

We may be reaching a point where we aren’t even the product but a resource to be used. The data we create just by writing this here on Reddit isn’t linked to us as the product, but is adding to the product that Reddit can sell. For AI companies, that data is what they’re buying to train and enhance their products.

We are essentially working for Reddit (and any social media that is data harvested to be clear), meaning Reddit is the product, not us.

It should then be double depressing that humans aren’t even that valuable anymore.

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u/20_mile 12h ago

AI companies

Unrelated to what you were saying specifically, the AI oligarchs have a groupchat going where they are betting who will be the world's first person to be the sole employee / owner of a billion dollar company.

People, workers, are irrelevant now. One guy can build a billion dollar company by himself.

Check out the recent Impolitic with John Heilemann podcast episode with Naomi Klein where they discuss her new book.

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u/miguelito_loveless 10h ago

I want to keep thinking of this realistically after getting more involved in the IT world and finding that most of the people who supposedly work in technical jobs appear to spend almost all their time solving scheduling/dumb (very dumb) logistical problems with very little left for tech stuff. Technical problem-solving is left to a very few specialist gurus who no one thanks nearly enough. People want to pretend they have jobs they don't actually have, and their employers are completely fine with that.

That "one guy" will not have built his billion-dollar company. He MAY have done the initial planning but then just held on tight to ride the engine of other people deciding on details and actually implementing pretty much every aspect of his enterprise (while he takes credit for being a genius).

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u/20_mile 9h ago

That "one guy" will not have built his billion-dollar company.

Sure, I could have put "one guy can build a billion dollar company by himself" in quotes. I agree with you.

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u/miguelito_loveless 1h ago edited 1h ago

Serves me right for rushing to respond. Upon rereading, your intent is quite clear to me, no additional quotes needed. I don't like their fantasy.