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I hate the notion of “laying off people to generate returns” so fucking much.
I feel like a variation of this exact article gets posted here every single day for the past year or so, and every time the same comments show up underneath. Nobody ever opens one of these threads and discovers a surprising or novel point of view.
I don’t understand why people spend their whole day talking about something they don’t like. It’s so bizarre to me.
Well it’s not just that people don’t like it, there are a lot of people whose jobs are on the line because of it.
So I guess it’s kind of hard for them not to keep talking about the thing that’s threatening their livelihood, which makes sense.
And of course they want to see news that tells them it isn’t going to be so bad and that their expertise will still be in demand.
I don’t understand why people spend their whole day talking about something they don’t like.
If people left me alone about it then I wouldn’t talk about it…reality is closer to this.
Where do they not leave you alone about it? 95% of AI related content I encounter online is people complaining about it on Lemmy.
Work? It sounds like thousands of idiot ceos are buying into the fake hype over this shit and forcing it on their employees. Before firing them. And then there’s the AI slop articles and imagery that’s cropping up everywhere…
Don’t fall for this sea-lioning (intentional or otherwise) situation - if the person you are responding to has never heard of the terms “social media” or “news”, that is not your problem.
Shocker. Just another excuse to fire higher paid workers, point at a line going up (until it doesn’t), say AI a lot, and then hire lower paid workers for the same (or worse now fighting AI in some cases) job.
This is the real answer. AI is just an excuse to cut costs while the economy is going to shit. By claiming it is all about AI, they get to cut and slash all they want without signaling to the stock market and their competitors that things are going to shit. It also allows them to cut without blaming the economy because pointing out the failing economy would upset the man-baby that is fucking up the entire world economy.
While very different in some ways, some parallels between the AI-driven layoffs and the offshore outsourcing layoffs of the mid-2000s are striking.
Ultimately both scenarios were/are driven by corporate greed. And it looks like the AI one is backfiring for many of the same reasons as the offshore one.
They are replacing experienced staff who have strong critical thinking abilities and hands-on knowledge, and the replacements lack the institutional knowledge and the ability to look at the big picture, and they substitute speed for methodological discernment.
Time is cyclical.
“Yeah, lets’t get rid of the knowledge of how our stuff actually works and replace it with a statistics fueled computer, woo, AI all the way!”
This is what pisses me off the most, the willful disregard for knowledge and skills in organizations.
If you don’t have the knowledge or skills, specific to your oranizations needs, then you can’t evaluate if the AI is doing a good job.
If every company is using the same few AIs, they’re basically the same company. Everything unique about them will deteriorate until it’s just corporate grey goo.
I mean… That’s not really saying much will change in the majority of cases?
CEOs are getting their pockets filled so, yeah, I think its exactly the way companies think.
If you lay off all the humans so AI can be cheap labour for corporations then there are only three alternatives.
- provide humans with a universal basic income and living wage.
- kill them all.
- let them loose and let them wander (more addicitons, more theft, more homelessness, more violence).
you also end up with AI buying AI from AI as there are no humans to generate or recieve the AI output.
🤔🧐😈
Like, no shit the plagiarism machine that cannot create anything truly novel and can only regurgitate other people’s already existing work can’t replace professionals. I legitimately hope all of these companies go under.
And that all the vibecoding they do instead will eventually turn their whole product into an unmanageable mess which cannot be salvaged.
Oh, and now you need a new fucking degree to learn how to ‘optimize your token usage with well crafted prompts the machine can understand’ otherwise you’ll burn through the energy Cleveland uses in a year, and end up costing the company millions.
Dumbest fucking bubble so far other than tulips and beanie babies
No it’s dumber. Beanie babies at least left you with a little doll kids could enjoy.
