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24 daysAI expected to create efficiencies
Couldn’t help but chuckle at that bullet point. We should know by now that AI creates lots of cognitive debt and unstable, vibe-coded software, as well as making people stupid. But one thing it absolutely doesn’t seem to do is make things more efficient long term.
- Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish24 days
See we replaced people with costs to run virtual people that would make oracle blush. Are the virtual people any good? Goodness no.
Oh, but they provide hallucinations and bug-ridden, incomprehensible code faster than anyone! That’s progress, right? Right?
- errer@lemmy.worldEnglish24 days
The problem here is “expected.” Maybe they’re right and AI will do what they say…well, show us the receipts first then before you ruin thousands of people’s lives?
- andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish23 days
Layoffs aren’t caused by AI efficiency. It’s the reverse. Layoffs and other aggressive cost-cutting cause CEOs to blather about future AI efficiencies.
Efficiency is how CEOs justify being still able to run (no, GROW) their companies with 40% less people. Besides AI, there are the dear old “you have to work harder” efficiency (see: 996 culture or Uber ) and the organizational efficiency where they are all “removing managerial layers to enable quicker execution” (see Amazon for instance).
See how these things became all fashionable again at the same time with tech company CEOs? It’s because they are just excuses and hopes, at this point. And AI is the least bad-sounding of them, because it smells like progress, magic and automation (while even the most rabid of investors will recognize that working employees to death doesn’t scale beyond the limited numbers of hours there are in a day).
- rayyy@piefed.socialEnglish24 days
Yet people STILL use Meta. Friends and family say switching is too hard. They are comfortable with this shit.
- Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish24 days
Inertia is one of the primary negative forces that moves humanity.
- FallenWalnut@lemmy.worldEnglish24 days
The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!
We can’t keep rewarding Big Tech for choosing AI over people.
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EU is going down the same path. The “EU alternative” stuff is just bogus. It’s just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.
Us tech is on a completely different level evil wise. Maybe it gets worse but in the moment EU tech is much less evil. Just listen to what the openai ceo says in interviews.
Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?
- Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish24 days
I feel like we’re watching billionaires race yachts. One person bought a yacht so then they all had to have a yacht and now they’re racing them against one another because for some fucked up reason that competition really gets them off.
Only it’s AI/data centers instead of yachts.
- 24 days
The all need to race yachts because there is only space for one yacht on paradise island.
They’re throwing away the one asset that could dig them out of this hole, if only they’d admit they fucked up royally.
This bubble won’t burst, it will explode.
Any ideas for how we can hasten the end? I sure would like to stop them before they build more data centers.
- 24 days
How about instead of cutting people who actually make money, you made that AI pay for itself?
- db2@lemmy.worldEnglish24 days
In the show the main character has a friend called Bubble Buddy, they purchase one of everything and the friend pays for it with Bubble Money which pops.
Also congrats on being the only person on earth who hasn’t heard of Spongebob.
- acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish24 days
being aware of the show doesn’t mean you understand a vague reference to one specific episode.
- 24 days
I’m well aware of Sponge Bob and Mr. Krabs, thank you very much. That doesn’t mean I know everything that has ever happened in every episode.
- Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish24 days
I never expected to say… Man. I bet the investors are really wishing lizard man stuck with the metaverse.
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish23 days
This is the underlying message of all this Billionaire giddiness: they can’t wait for AI to replace as many of these disgusting human workers as possible.
They would replace every single one of us, if they could, and this administration will HELP them. If we end up with a 50% unemployment rate, they’ll just criminalize debt and unemployment, and put you in a work camp to be leased out as a Federal 13th Amendment Slave. They’ll probably even shorten it, and call them 13s.
Of course, as 13s become common, even more paid jobs will be lost, and eventually most jobs will be done by AI, automation, or slaves, with a few humans in maintenance, software, development, and supervisory positions. The board room will remain all human, of course, even though they’d be the easiest to replace with AI.
