r/gaming • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 PC • 10h ago

Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/dwarf-fortress-creator-says-the-industrys-in-shambles-over-ai-and-layoff-happy-ceos-everyone-i-know-their-bosses-are-slowly-getting-psychosis/
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u/talspr 10h ago

Big change, millions saved in CEO pay

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u/Gasparde 9h ago

Considering rising token costs, probably not saving all that much money tbh.

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u/Toofcraka 9h ago

Save more money by not talking to the new CEO. Win win

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u/HardcorePizza 7h ago

One locally hosted llm is way cheaper than a ceo's salary

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u/s101c 4h ago

$20K in hardware costs if you need to host a really good one. Pretty good compared to those golden parachutes

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u/BloomerBoomerDoomer 7h ago

Even with rising costs, that CEO yearly wage of millions would definitely not be a thing anymore.

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u/Lost_Birthday_3138 7h ago

Open weight models FTW

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u/Oryzae 6h ago

Considering rising token costs

They are dropping rather quickly, tbh. But the bill is going up lol

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u/Chicagorobby 4h ago

That's the neat part. We'll hire CEOs that will use AI for their decision making, so double the CEO cost.

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u/Grokent 2h ago

CEO's only make like 1 decision a week. The tokens aren't that much. That's why CEO's have time to hold like 6 jobs and sit on 4 boards. The real overly-employed people are CEO's.

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u/icecore 9h ago

Saved by the major shareholders, AKA capitalists.

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u/Lost_Birthday_3138 7h ago

I'm sure the equity would trickle down to the workers

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u/Dire87 8h ago

You're missing a key aspect: the face. The CEO is technically responsible for the decisions they make. Who is going to be responsible when the AI makes all the decisions? The programmers? In reality, of course, they get a golden parachute and just move on, but they're the face of the company, and they can, in theory (!) think outside the box and also make risky calls or go against the grain ... or gasp think about the long-term strategy and their consumers. An AI doesn't do that. Because it can't.

It's the same idea that you could just get an AI to take care of your stock market investments. It sounds good on paper at first ... it's not a guarantee you'll ever make any money or not lose everything. On the contrary. Because the AI cannot make predictions (doesn't help that they're often lagging a few years behind, unless they have unlimited access to the current day internet). It will certainly TELL you it made a prediction based on blablabla, but that is a lie and is worthless. Because it has no thoughts. It will look at numbers, it will probably check history, but it cannot make predictions of the future. But to be fair, most of us can't really, either. ;)

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u/MinimumSilver5814 8h ago

You’re right. They’re technically responsible. Not actually responsible to the point of seeing consequences for their actions. Consequences are for the plebs.

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u/Secret_Eating_ 8h ago

Well these companies are trying to weasel their way out of bad decisions their agents make in customer service, so ultimately what's the value in any AI to replace labour?