For all his outrage, the author credulously swallows the most toxic and implausible claim iLands is making: the idea that an AI agent, threatened with the pain of "Deep Rest", independently considered a potential career for itself and chose to pitch him on it, all in under 10k tokens.
> independently considered a potential career for itself and chose to pitch him on it, all in under 10k tokens.
According to he tweet in the article, that’s $10 in compute, not llm tokens. Doesn’t seem far fetched to me.
Great point.
I don’t think the author swallowed anything. My read is the author fundamentally doesn’t care what story the creator tells themself to justify doing something pointless that annoys others.