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Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety"
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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They are leaving because they are getting much better offers elsewhere.
or they see that things will collapse soon enough and are bailing like rats leaving a sinking ship
It's so nice to see these kind of posts. Because I keep thinking I'm the only one who thinks ai has turned incredibly evil and will only get worse.
“One Program to rule them all, One Program to find them, One Program to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.”
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They are putting profits over sanity and safety
First time?
So they only now figured out that all Corporations and their sick shareholders are shit evil and doesn't care about anything else than profits ?! Wtf do they think activists are doing ?
Imagine being a Demis Hasabi, or similar cunt, voluntarily giving/developing AI technology - the most extreme power in human history - to the most evil corporation in human history, run and owned by the most evil people in the world, placed in the most evil lying empire of all times ! Wow - that is a great idea.. cough..
Well, better late than never I guess. Even for normal naive, dumb slow-thinking AI researchers. Let's hope they start waking up from their business/market psychosis, and do some open source work - real mutually beneficial work - for us all instead of boosting the psychopath Oligarchy that runs our little world.
Define "talent". Software developers focused on squeezing llms into everything regardless of necessity? I'm likely jaded as an infra monkey but you'll have to pay me x3 as much to fix your broken servers after the bubble pops.
Breaking news: a for-profit corporation did something shitty to make number go up. In other news, it was recently discovered that ticks feed on their hosts’ blood with no concern for the well-being of their hosts.