They’re totally just firing everyone to keep major corporations alive a little longer and blaming it on AI cause China is destroying us in the trade war cause capitalism’s collapsing.

EDIT: Wait wtf he said his own job isn’t safe? All this “AI taking entry level jobs” bs is masking how companies can’t afford to hire entry level workers anymore. Is he trying to deflect blame or implying mother fucking GOOG might go under?? Holy shit if that happens add another communist holiday to the list!

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

His job isn’t at risk because he controls the tech and he decides the firing. He has to say that to show how advanced AI is. Any CEO is a deals guy and does a lot of sleazy selling tactics to convince the board he’s good

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Just bog standard CEO fellow-kids

[–] Red_October@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So trying to deflect blame while also pretending LLMs can somehow replace high level management.

We can still hope.

[–] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

High level management seems like the easiest thing to replace with an LLM. They're not applying any sort of specialized knowledge, just some combination of playing it safe and wrecking policy due to their hallucinations.

[–] Red_October@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Corporate “people” always did seem like automated flesh suits who would die if their company did.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"It's so good, we [insert wild speculation] in 18-24 months"

[–] Red_October@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I remember like back at (I think) the end of 2023 they were saying they’ll have skynet in 2027.

You know, to scare the gen x.