I think they stopped telling workers anything a while back. They have LLMs for that. Exec messages have always been full of corporate lingo, canned legal language and artificial energy, so to be fair they have always been prime use cases for LLMs, but at least before you could still catch hints of their personality or a glimpse of humanity sometimes. Now that’s all gone. They have become at least 10x more efficient with layoffs though.
Honestly I find this darkly hilarious. The circlejerk is becoming more and more obvious. I’m going to be surprised if the bubble doesn’t pop within the next 6 months or so - definitely before the end of the year.
All it took for this to happen was:
- skyrocketing energy prices
- skyrocketing hardware prices
- skyrocketing water usage
- the effective priceout of PC/homelab enthusiasts and hobbyists which will probably destroy much of the community, and thus most of the consumer-oriented hardware manufacturers
- turning the US economy into a house of cards
- sharply accelerated enshitification of all major search engines (in the interest of pushing people to use LLM bullshit for no good reason, when a perfectly suitable and deterministic alternative already existed and was deployed at scale everywhere)
- flagrantly ignoring licensing and usage terms for basically any and all open source software projects hosted anywhere on the internet
- the hollowing out of software engineering as a discipline, the collapse of the hiring prospects of fresh grads/juniors because “ai can do that”, and the creation of a generational gap in staffing across huge swathes of the tech industry writ large
- the (even more) accelerated enshitification of social media as it becomes a series of gigantic LLM bot farms talking to each other
- we can go on
What a time to be alive.
Jensen can suck my Huang.
Not supposed to say the quiet part out loud
They just can’t help themselves. All of these techbro fuckers jumped the gun on this being “THE” AI wave but instead have bet everything on the equivalent of the self checkout kiosk at the grocery store. That was touted as the way to save money, lower the chances of unionism, and make the checkout process more efficient. Instead it has been a money pit that introverts and morally flexible people love! AI slop is flooding Youtube, drowning the tech industry in biblical sized code commits and hallucinated security threats, while continuing to be the greatest theft in the history of our species (after that mother fucker Thog stole my ancestors shiny rock).
funny thing is self-checkout ends up costing grocery chains more money in the end, because it was an easy to shoplift without causing too much suspicion, at least for a few years it was introduced.
Why the fuck are there so many spaces between your sentences?
I’m seeing them too.
I am not seeing a problem so I suspect its an elder millenial/xennial thing?
Other possibility is I am on piefed, you are lemmy, and the formatting has gotten bjorked between them?
edit: I am curious now, can you send me a screenshot?
I am on lemmy, using the Sync app, but this is only showing this way for your posts. It doesn’t seem consistent, some look to be double spaced, others 4-6 spaces
Then stop firing them because of AI
They not firing them for AI. It’s just a justification to fire because they over hired, atleast in the tech industry when money was cheap.
Lol it seems they are feeling that gaining public opinion might be important to try and get their awful plans off the ground
Maybe this POS is just starting to fear for his life if this goes on
On one hand, fuck that guy and what he’s trying to do to the world.
On the other hand, he’s saying the CEOs are lazy and want to look smart. Can’t argue with that point, even if it’s a small piece of a larger stream of bullshit.
I really dislike this dude more every day.
I remember 10 years ago when he cosplayed the leather jacket cool guy gamer CEO. Dude has always been a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s gross and every time he refers to people as “humans” it makes my skin crawl.
This is why people should put CEOs in a pedestal. The Xbox fan base did that for years with Phil Spencer after the Matrick era. In the end that cool guy persona lead to a legacy of buying studios and shutting them down when they didn’t meet internal metrics. Xbox was left in a dire state with his departure same as it was when he entered.
You mean why people should not put billionaires and ceos on pedestals
Aged like fine wine
Yeah, start telling them the truth. They were fired due to C-suite greed.
Oh, but “we are cutting workforce to invest in AI” sounds much better than “we are cutting workforce, because we struggling in current economy”.
That’s the rub. They don’t even say “we are cutting workforce to invest in AI”, they say “we are cutting workforce because we’ve already replaced people with AI”, which they have not. They’re just such hype driven buffoons that they actually believe that LLMs are going to easily replace the people they just cut in their hubris.
Saying they’ve cut people to invest in AI is actually a little more honest because it admits that they haven’t actually already succeeded.
Or "we’re cutting workforce because we’re greedy sociopaths more inclined to appease share holders’
betting habitsinterest than create a quality product that our longstanding workforce understands and can support, even though AI can’t really’
“The narrative that connects AI to job loss, for many of the CEOs that are doing it — it is just too lazy,” Huang told Channel News Asia. “AI has just arrived, how is it possible they’re already losing jobs?”
Why are these guys so dumb, how did they get into positions of power? I think mostly just by being willing to stand up in front of a crowd and camera? AI hasn’t just arrived, it’s been improved over the last couple of years, and has become much more capable recently.
It’s not necessarily that they’re dumb, it’s that they think others are dumb enough to believe any old crap they say.
I genuinely think they’re dumb, they have no sense of the fact that their greed and gatekeeping will bring about a serious shift in society. They should be trying to create new job opportunities and programs for people to innovate, yet we’re gridlocked in a shit late-stage capitalist society where we can’t actually do anything because of weird zoning laws and regulations.
They don’t care they have vacation homes on every continent, they really won’t give a shit when the us descends into chaos. They already dont give a shit when a town of 10,000 in california gets their water shut off.
Good, let them go to their vacation homes wherever and let us take back control of our shit.
