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[–] calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Oh for sure, they’re taking big tech’s lead.

Tech has been blaming AI for layoffs for a couple years now, when they hired an insane number of people during and after COVID. They literally hired to lay off. I found this graph illustrative of the boom and bust.

The people in this administration love when tech can get away with something (see the Cambridge Analytica scandal around 2016) because they will too.