"Of course, it will also probably cost somewhere around $50k..."
Whats to stop people remotely accesssing this? People already do this when working remotely in finance - they connect to a virtual environment that does their work in spreadsheets lmao. nobody cares about the lag, managers certainly dont care about sub-ordinates complaining about it - the same way nobody will care about a slight loss of quality if the economics make sense. frontier labs are screwed really.
"People who are using these tools to accomplish significantly more difficult or complex work than they used to are absolutely finding new ways to push themselves"
hahaha this is a miniscule amount of people.
most people do not care about their job, only to the extent it is a source of income. but they do not care about it anything more than that. and they shouldnt either!
The worrying thing is these are people who nominally seem smart - what we are seeing is 'smart' is not what we think/was. Smart is the ability to identify an object which is harmful and a) be disciplined about its use b) become a better person who doesnt need to expose themselves to said object.
I actually I had one fella who was very distressed - pouring out all his stresses to a bot. Then I reminded him the bot is literally designed to tend to his nees - not to his benefit - but to the provider of the good whom will manipulate said user later on. He then immediately deleted his accounts.
Many are not aware of whats going on around them - this is very concerning.