When I machine a part, the lathe does most of the heavy lifting, but it's a tool and it doesn't deserve any credit for anything. Yet without it, it would take me hours to file a round part imperfectly that takes me 10 seconds to turn to perfection on the lathe. The lathe is absolutely essential to my workshop.

Two things can be true at the same time.

I've been bringing this up to my bosses, they do not care at all.

In my opinion, employers are so high on a prospect of letting employees go in a "near" future, that they are completely okay with liabilities way bigger than hiring workers is right now. No idea why they would ignore such direct existential danger for their companies.

Short term thinking probably.

This is so fucked up.

...the contract says the material submitted to them won't be used to train other models - and he believes it...

This is what I just don't get, that people trust major companies when they claim to not analyze or use your data in any way they can once you have uploaded it to them.

It is a simple equation, how much does the actual breach of contract cost, how likely is it that we get sued and loose, and how much better will our models get by analyzing and training on everything?

Unless you can honestly say that a huge corporation like Microsoft/Google/Amazon would pay more to you and every other customer for missusing your data than they will earn by improving their models on all their customer's data, you can't use proprietary data in an LLM/AI.

I miss the old network shares, now it is all OneDrive and SharePoint, it sucks.

So yeah I was completely right..

They didn't solve anything, they just stole the data from a team and elaborated the data in a very very efficient way, which is way faster than humans could.

First of all: The main data was done by humans, OpenAI just acted as a calculator.

Second: The repository of OpenAI makes no sense since some results are, again, just stolen data with no actual added argument.

And third: AI here is not replacing, it's just causing damage to people's career, cause scammers use AI to steal data from actual scientists.

If and when AI will be an available tool like a calculator to every team, everyone can speed up their game at the same rate; what we're watching here is just humans being humans in a capitalistic society: Scammers see a new advantage, scammers use the advantage early before it gets regulated.

At least Soylent Green was predicated on the overpopulation scare of the past half century, now with humanity facing population collapse by the next half century the hoarding of wealth from the dwindling population is even more egregious.