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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

"Quarterly earnings are down. How do we make number go up so shareholders don't riot?"

"Lay off a bunch of people."

"Well, yeah, but that'll look bad. We'll have to spin it somehow."

"Two words: 'A' 'I'."

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago

Zuckerberg, in contrast to Gale, has said outright that AI is making some hiring unnecessary. “We’re starting to see projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single very talented person,” he said in the January earnings call.

"AI won't replace us, we're just going to be working more productively with AI" said the useful software engineer, naively parroting Big Tech's corporate PR.

Everyone should be reading Marx.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is going to be a boon in jobs to fix the absolute mess that this is making.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

But not for a long time and not before these buffoons and the government have completely destroyed the economy

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

These firms aren't replacing people with AI, they're cutting wages to fund building data centers because financing is starting to dry up.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

I fucking hate jack welch

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

Nadella is mid-transformation into Megamind.

[–] Darthcapi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Some men should not be bald. Also, the background looks like it’s from the lawnmower man movie. And also, thanks for hating workers