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Tesla Caps Employee AI Spend at $200 per Week After Adoption Push (www.theinformation.com)
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[โ€“] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Some businesses already have. Take Ford for example.

Edit: I guess they're not being hired back because they're "cheaper", but rather because AI couldn't effectively do their job. I suppose that turns out to be cheaper in the long run.

[โ€“] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

I think Ford and the rest are using AI as an excuse to do a rank and yank - everybody is let go, then some are invited back. This isn't anything new - Florida Power and Light (which is about 1/10th the size of Ford in terms of engineers) did this "fire everybody and make them reapply for jobs" thing back in the early 1990s. It's a way of "cleaning house" without singling out the bad apples.