Carl T. Bergstrom: So I have always found the term “onboarding”to be extremely grating. “Onboarded,” worse yet. But it turns out that was just low key business bullshit-speak because until now it was talking about humans.

So I have always found the term “onboarding”to be extremely grating. “Onboarded,” worse yet. But it turns out that was just low key business bullshit-speak because until now it was talking about humans.

@karlbode.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social Let me draw your attention to this. Yes, it's on LinkedIn, sorry: www.linkedin.com/posts/sarahf...

Sarah Franklin on LinkedIn: Today, Lattice Makes History and Leads the Way in Responsible Employment… | 192 commentswww.linkedin.com Today, Lattice made history: We became the first company to give digital workers official employee records in Lattice. This marks a huge moment in the… | 192 comments on LinkedIn

Customers love to hear that you “don’t have all the answers” about how the product you’re trying to sell them is meant to work

“Excuse me doctor, is this surgery safe?” “This is a journey, let’s break ground together”

Oh they'll be bending minds alright... "AI Employees"... 😂

‘We have no idea what we’re doing and shit is gonna break and you’ll just have to deal with the fallout because we’re doing it regardless’

Onboarding our AI employees. Getting their I-9s, background checks, showing them where the bathroom is

All comments under this LI post are negative, which makes me think it's working as a useful prop for some "we, the sane AI hypers, deplore this insane AI hyper" posturing

It’s somewhat like an aversion biting into a lemon, scowling then shaking your head side trying to forget what happened.🤔😂

Do these "workers" have the ability to consent? I think not, so the model is not employment, it's slavery. Wherever slavery becomes an acceptable model, it tends to expand and metastasize.

is onboarding something like what's that thing they do at guantanimo bay?

'bending minds and leaning into learning' i just barfed up most of my anatomy. i think the first time i experienced onboarding was working for a community college back in 2017? 2018? it was a fucking nightmare. i had to open up SO MANY internet accouts. i don't like 21st cent.

I hate the word "onboarding" so much! Why does it have to be so close to "waterboarding"?

She speaks as if LLM-based agents learn and respond to incentives like humans. She's either got an extremely sophisticated back-end to build a "human learning simulation" out of cruder tools like system prompts and fine tuning, or she knows nothing about the tech. My bet's on the latter.

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