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Why are some people so vehemently against genAI? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by thefreepenguinalt@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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And i don't mean stuff like deepfakes/sora/palantir/anything like that, im talking about why the anti-genai crowd isn't providing an alternative where you can get instant feedback when you're journaling

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[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AI companies are not replacing their employees with AI either

You sure about that? I mean they're obviously hiring more because they have the investors at the moment but that doesn't mean they arent using AI internally.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're rehiring now, for example Klarna laid off their customer service reps to replace with AI but they're walking it back and rehiring human reps (tbh klarna has other problems right now lol).

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Klarna is not an AI company. I was asking if AI companies really weren't replacing their own employees with AI.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I read too fast lol. I was talking about the engineers that work on the models in this case; tech companies would never replace them with AI because they know it wouldn't work out.

But I looked more broadly into it couldn't find any source that says the mass layoffs we are seeing in tech currently are replacing jobs with AI, rather it seems they're getting rid of the job entirely as happens routinely in the industry (as they are shifting to another focus which currently is AI). There's Amazon who is building automated warehouses but YMMV; they also started on these before AI and have been at it for a while.

For new AI companies like openAI, the jobs they are giving to AI (such as customer service) were never created in the first place, so it's not replacing a worker, since the job never existed.