Comment by chrisss395
7 days ago
Re: common people, yes, and given all the talk of job instability AI is creating, why hasn’t Anthropic or OpenAI offered discounted plans for laid off or displaced workers? Wouldn’t this be a tangible way to display goodwill and build adoption?
> why hasn’t Anthropic or OpenAI offered discounted plans for laid off or displaced workers?
Because it's not a widespread phenomenon. A few large tech cos laid off large swaths of people a handful of times. That's only happening in those large tech cos. Most cos are empowering their employees with AI as a tool, not a replacement, and they're not letting anyone go (unless they refuse to use this new tool).
Of course, they're not hiring as much either, since their current teams can accomplish more with AI as a tool. Maybe the AI companies could give job seekers a bit of a discount, but that would be abused to all hell without crazy administrative overhead costs, so why would they?
> why hasn’t Anthropic or OpenAI offered discounted plans for laid off or displaced workers?
because they are profit maxing. the AI world would be a completely different place if it's not for the open models.