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“AI #122: Paying The Market Price” by Zvi


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If you are Meta, and you want to attract top AI talent, you have a problem, because no one wants to work for you or on your products. So it is going to cost you. Mark Zuckerberg has decided he will pay what it takes to get at least some very good talent.

If you are the rest of us, especially someone seeking an entry-level job and for whom $100 million signing bonuses are not flooding your inboxes, things are getting rougher. AI might not yet be destroyed a lot of jobs, but it is doing a number on the job application process.

There's a lot of other stuff going on as per usual.

Anthropic won a case establishing that model training is fair use.

Yesterday I shared various Tales of Agentic Misalignment, and we have some more related fun since then that is included [...]

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Outline:

(01:20) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(08:16) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(10:49) Huh, Upgrades

(11:29) On Your Marks

(12:01) Choose Your Fighter

(13:58) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(16:56) Release the Hounds

(19:31) Copyright Confrontation

(21:12) Cheaters Gonna Cheat (x5)

(23:39) Fun With Media Generation

(24:07) Get My Agent On The Line

(24:36) They Took Our Jobs

(27:24) Get Involved

(28:12) Introducing

(30:40) In Other AI News

(32:59) Gemini Sings The Blues

(34:12) Show Me the Money

(38:23) Quiet Speculations

(42:14) Timelines

(43:18) Jack Clark Testifies

(52:52) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(55:57) Chip City

(56:08) The Week in Audio

(57:36) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:05:09) Be Prepared

(01:05:42) Misaligned!

(01:09:10) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:14:58) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:15:36) The Lighter Side

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First published:

June 26th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DiHX6C6knmA5cezaf/ai-122-paying-the-market-price

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