• Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15 minutes

    I mean I agree to an extent but also of course he would say that. Him saying this means less than nothing.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
    12 minutes

    I’m not surprised. It was very apparent after interest rates rose that tech companies had to immediately start worrying about making money and not making long term bets which might make money. When you aren’t making as much software as you used to, why have that many programmers in payroll?

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    30 minutes

    What? You mean when they are giving excuses for layoffs, the excuses are NOT the real reason? I’ve ALWAYS assumed they were ALWAYS telling us the truth! How can they do this? My entire world-view is smashed! I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you!

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 hours

    This doesn’t seem particularly shocking for him to say, pointing out that his product is being used as a scapegoat seems like sensible reputation management.

    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      30 minutes

      I mean it’s also kind of true though…

      AI is taking some jobs, in situations where the limiting factor is the rate at which work can be done rather than the skills required to do it. Say you have five people in PR, of which three are responsible for trawling through sources to find out what’s actually being said about the company, and two are responsible for writing press releases. The jobs of two of the people trawling through sources could be replaced with AI, as the limiting factor is the amount of posts, documents and stories you can read. While you’d still need an overseer to fact check and collate, that sort of work can be done much faster than actually reading and finding sources. If the company also lays off one of the people responsible for writing press releases, however, that would be unrelated to AI as that sort of job isn’t replaceable by AI (right now at least) due to the majority of the work being something that probabilistic models just aren’t correct enough to do, so that’d be an unrelated layoff being blamed on AI, even if whoever orders it genuinely believes that AI has replaced the job.

    • cRazi_man@europe.pubEnglish
      2 hours

      Altman says, Musk says, Polymarket says, etc etc seems to be what mainstream news sites focus on a lot now. It takes a lot of filter words to make my news RSS feed tolerable now.

      In the early days of social media, social media used to steal attention/clicks from news sites by regurgitating news site material. Now news sites are trying to compete with social media by regurgitating whatever shit shows up on social media sites.

  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    Trying to get the people back on his side after signing those military contracts? Fuck off and die!

    • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1 hour

      As if we were ever on his side in the first place

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 hours

    A lot of companies building AI datacenters, are laying off people to afford the gamble. Oracle, Meta the biggest ones. So there’s a real burning of core bridges effect to get into the bubble gold rush.