It’s not replacing jobs, it’s being used as a scapegoat.
You could probably fire a lot of Meta and not lose any real productivity. Just look at how’s much resources they allocated to VR and stalker glasses?
The truth is these companies spent covid playing Pokémon card collector with devs and now they’re spending hundreds of billions trying to capitalize on AI, so they need that cash flow black to pay for loans.
But on the other side of the same stick, you’ve got employees who you can now whip harder and say “look, we can make flappy bird with an AI model, do your deep work using 100 ai agents instead of thinking”
The fact that the same tech companies that fire people en masse are balls deep into the AI ouroboros can‘t be a coincidence. It‘s essentially a cruel and stupidly risky PR campaign for their shitty product.
It’s the greed. I’m so glad the comments are full of people who are clued in.
The headline (as in AI replacing jobs) is as real as the CRAP (Computer Rendered Artificial Picture) it uses.
tax corporations that replace workers with automations.
citizens that don’t work, don’t generate tax revenue for local municipalities. that loss has to be recouped somewhere, and the best place is from the companies that are causing the reduction in tax revenue.
i cant help but wonder why they used a photo that looks like ai for this article
My company is in there somewhere, however the layoffs weren’t that big and seemed well targeted. Especially the number of middle managers
And were spending way too much on ai. No guardrails. No limits. Reviewed partly on how high your ai spend is
I’m definitely worried, since I don’t spend enough
