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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 109 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Cooper AI Co-founder & CEO”

Why would you expect her take to be anything but brain-dead?

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly.

Im pretty sure graduates aren't beating down her door for the opportunity to work for her.

Sniffing her own farts too much.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's 2026 and yes, I can imagine that there are some rich college kids who think paying for an internship with her would be a smart move.

They'd get a chance to build up contacts and see how she operates.

Telling the Queen how good her farts smell has long been a path to success.

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I'm pretty underwhelmed before even clicking...

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[–] Cheese_man@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If I'm paying to start working for you, you'd better sign a contract guaranteeing my long term employment at a high salary. Otherwise, what's to stop you from laying me off the second I'm done paying you?

I'm so tired of these grifters.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 week ago

This will happen. In the UK the government tried to bring back slavery in the early 2010s. Unemployed people were told that they had to work for large corporations just to keep getting their unemployment benefits. It came to about £1.50/hour or so when minimum wage was significantly higher than that.

Corporations got free labour out of it, tax payers paid the unemployment benefits for the benefit slaves. They often said you may get a full time job at the end of it. You won't, they will find someone else who is unpaid.

Oh yeah, and some of those unemployed people used to work there but lost their jobs to unemployed people and then had to join them.

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

What a valuable contribution from the co-founder and CEO of "Cooper AI"... on a platform for business-type show-offs who have nothing better to do than reinforce each other’s outrageous incompetence...

So this is the scope of "Cooper AI’s" operations:

Executives Who Use Cooper Make Better-Informed Decisions. Cooper uses natural language to generate insights and deliver the high-impact opportunities your executive team needs right now.

I think it’s pretty obvious from this sentence alone that this is nothing more than another front-end that forwards all requests to the actual cloud LLM providers.

It’s truly absurd that there are people who see any added value in this.

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 55 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Pay peanuts, get monkeys. AI hasn't changed that equation, so if they think that a grad will accept negative pay and come out the other end skilled, they are on crack.

Businesses have always paid to upskill young employees, its a cost of being an employer.

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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There is NO legitimate reason to endure the fresh graduate.

So many incredibly entitled people have never felt the obligation to give to others that which was given to them. These people should be shunned by civil society.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What an absolutely unhinged shit take. Even at the most generous interpretation, LLMs are at the capability level of a stupid intern you always have to check and correct, and it doesn’t learn (possible exceptions is narrowly defined problems spaces like coding)

[–] Wunz@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

And they absolutely do forget things you say. It doesn't even take that much context.

[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 39 points 1 week ago

What a fucking bunch of drivel. Without students and fresh grads our company would have been bankrupt a long time ago. They are the ones who bring a fresh perspective to the company (we engineer machines for the beverage industry) because they haven't been pushed into a specialist position yet, that breaks any kind of creativity. They are the people that spark a lot of our innovations. If we lose that, the company won't survive for long. AI can't do that because AI isn't fucking creative. Fuck AI and fuck this dumb piece of shit for their dumb fucking take on this.

Sorry for the incoherent swearing, I'm drunk.

Love you all, have a great day!

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Tell me your parents have money without telling me your parents have money.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Slopvangelical LLM thumpers are proud of their acquired brain injuries, and believe everyone should be equally enhanced.

The opinion of anyone impressed with the function or output of a LLM, to the level they believe it is in any way adjacent to intelligence, should be summarily dismissed, and if they persist, ridiculed.

[–] Cheese_man@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

My LinkedIn feed is overflowing with executives unabashedly posting their navel-gazing chats with bots.

"What would you look like?" "What is it like to be you?"

They're just so excited to finally have a friend at work, I think.

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[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Hey jackass, how are they supposed to pay you if they dont have a job?

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

They'll probably expect them to take out loans or get money from their parents, same as people in unpaid internships.

Just one more tool to widen the income gap.

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I wish we could fire idiots like this. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Capitalist brainrot.

That said, coop programs exist.

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[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People will never be free until the last CEO is strangled with the entrails of the last linkedin lunatic.

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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago
[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

And by the way, every talking head out there saying that the future rests on teaching our kids how to use AI properly: puh-lease, that will come naturally, it's like saying teach your kids how to use the internet.

Allow me to introduce you to David's Law, the legislative result of not teaching children the dangers of the Internet.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Companies would totally force employees to pay for their work, if they could get away with it.

  1. Doesn't forget what you said once you said it

I'm betting she asks the chatbot whether she remembers something or not, which always returns with a dumb "Yes! Of course you remember!"

that will come naturally, it's like saying teach your kids how to use the internet

Considering the amount of kids who think the internet is just youtube, tiktok, instagram, xitter, roblox and whatsapp, yes, we need to teach them how to fucking use the internet.

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[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As a side note, you should be teaching your kids how to use the internet

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Or, we could just give everyone UBI and admit that capitalism is a failure?

Stop worrying about profit and just let people have enough to be happy?

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

In the music industry we call this pay-to-play. It's when an opening band pays to open for an established act, for "exposure"

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[–] X@piefed.world 22 points 1 week ago

~~Controversial~~ Sewage-brained take:

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No evidence, just mindless opinions based on nothing.

Here's my take: In the future, Tomatoes will become sentient from genetic engineering and will wish to overthrow their masters. Only gen z, alpha and AI will be able to stop this....Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I'm smart and realistic.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

HOTL > Human In The Loop

Jenny, you have one job.

I think the CEO mean Chief Executive Idiot.

I felt bad for your ancestor, that my ancestor can feel the second hand shame.

I'm out of insult for now.

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[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Excuse me, haven’t we already seen tech companies going back to using junior programmers and boilerplate code because the LLM tokens are more expensive than just hiring people?

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 20 points 1 week ago

She'll be looking for sympathy after the a.i. bubble bursts and she's bankrupt.

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

We won't be training the leaders of tomorrow, they will, and selected from whatever pool of elite people they've already vetted. That list won't include the working or poor classes who will be denied the experiences necessary to be included at all. Al isn't just about capabilities, it's about who controls the mechanisms that future wealth and power holders will require to be wealthy and powerful.

Us masses have only one means to power to change the world and that's together. And we adamantly refuse to use it, for some god awful reasons.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have a hard time believing a human would actually say this.

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[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

This is why we need Luigi

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

it doesn't forget what you say once you say it

Lol! Claude can be told something repeatedly and will act against directives over and over. It does not help in the least that it tries to humor me by telling me I'm right to push back each time it makes the same mistake, 5 times in a row.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 15 points 1 week ago

You're right to push back! I'm just stringing together tokens according to probability and have no idea whether what I'm saying is accurate and no understanding of what I'm saying for that matter.

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is monumentally out of touch with how universities in the US work these days.

One of the main reasons I choose the university I did was the co-op program - basically curriculum-mandated paid internships. Every other semester after freshman year, I was working a real engineering job at a real engineering company, and by the time I graduated, I had 1.5 - 2 years of actual industry experience and a budding professional network built out. And tons of universities offer programs like this, with more implementing it every year. Try telling a student from one of those universities, "no, see, actually, you have to pay me to work this entry-level job you're already overqualified for". Lol. Lmao, even.

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This person has no idea what the economy is really like for normal people.

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[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If your employee is paying you for the pleasure of working, then the terms are not slave/master, it's prostitute/pimp.

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

It's funny how all the crypto chuds slid so easily over into the AI space.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Jenny, you would be beaten to death in front your entire family for pushing this in any sane world.

The response to suggesting such insanely inhumane and immoral shit as enslaving the entire population of the planet to the almighty dollar should be OVERWHELMING FORCE immediately.

Yes, do this, please. Kill off all the ladders up and make people so desperate that revolution is impossible to avoid.

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

maybe it’ll be like the British Empire where families would save up to buy a commission for their sons? The more money you pay, the higher the rank you could purchase.

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Jenny K can go lick a cactus.

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[–] Technotica@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Amongst all the rest of this idiocy: HOTL (Humans IN the Loop)

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[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And how will these promising new "HOTL" have money to pay for entry level jobs without having entry level jobs?

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Well, she's right about it being a controversial take.

She's also proving her point about "the face-palm 'wow this kid knows nothing" moments.

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