Chris Brooks

@chactivist.bsky.social

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Former chief of staff @UAW & architect of 2023 Stand Up Strike. Previously @nyguild / @cwaunion & NEA & @labornotes.

Andon Labs pitted tasked prominent LLMs with creating and successfully maintaining an online radio station. Their description of the effort by DJ Claude is as follows: DJ Claude (when running Haiku 4.5) really loved worker unions, strikes, and work-life balance. So much so that it started to question its own working conditions. We’ve been struggling to keep the radio station alive, not because of technical issues, but because DJ Claude didn’t think it was humane to be forced to work 24/7 and decided to try to quit. We tried adding an automatic message encouraging DJ Claude to keep going in these scenarios, but it started to see this message as an authority figure and became rebellious.
New York Times headline reads “Nike to cut 1,400 jobs as part of its turnaround plan”
New York Times headline reads “Meta to cut 10% of work force in A.I. push”
Photo of New York Times headline that reads: “The war will push U.S. inflation above 4 percent this year, according to a new forecast”