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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

AI 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.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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).

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

See we replaced people with costs to run virtual people that would make oracle blush. Are the virtual people any good? Goodness no.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, but they provide hallucinations and bug-ridden, incomprehensible code faster than anyone! That's progress, right? Right?

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Through great effort we have molded this once analog curiosity into a digital ouroboros... to very nearly duplicate Kyle from accounting!

... Admittedly this would be the Kyle following the unfortunate kick to the head from that clydesdale.

Nevermind that! We've gone ahead and laid off the rest off accounting and now Kyle² is wielding immesurable power to... Oh. Oh dear.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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?

[–] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!

We can't keep rewarding Big Tech for choosing AI over people.

We need to make the switch to support smaller & better businesses - reminder about purchasewithpurpose.io to help you get started.

[–] GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Also we shout stop to buy us tech producs completly.

https://www.goeuropean.org/

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?

[–] GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago

I use infomaniak

[–] calebegg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Proton mail is swiss and is great. If by cloud you mean cloud storage it also has proton drive; if you mean aws, I don't know though.

[–] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Agreed! There are lots of excellent EU-based alternatives.

[–] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

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.

It's not bogus if you are yourself European or if the alternative is Big Tech. But I feel you. There are lots of shitty European companies that are not that much better. I avoided the switch to Spotify because even though they are "European" they gave a lot of money to Joe Rogan and to Trump on his inauguration.

Also, the EU did recently reject the chat control proposal so at least that's something...

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Chat Control comes to mind.

[–] GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

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. 

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I want to do that if there is a deal in which part of what I spend is reinvested in hiring workers at humane rates.

Or, even better, in sharing ownership with the workers.

The "bodega romanticism" is something I see as a huge societal issue, also because I can imagine a lot of "bodegas" actually dreaming to achieve the same kind of success of Big Tech.

[–] ji59@hilariouschaos.com -2 points 2 days ago

I don't think AI is to blame. They just don't need those people. I heard big tech hired a lot of people to steal them from smaller businesses, so they could not compete with them. If those employees had been useful to them, they wouldn't fire them.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The all need to race yachts because there is only space for one yacht on paradise island.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

You mean Epstein island?

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yet people STILL use Meta. Friends and family say switching is too hard. They are comfortable with this shit.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Inertia is one of the primary negative forces that moves humanity.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago

Keeps humanity moving in the same direction.

😉

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

It's always the network effect.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 day ago

Running out of cash for the AI runway are we?

[–] atropa@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] null@lemmy.org 6 points 1 day ago

Deleted Facebook, but everyone is know is still maintaining an IG.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago
[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How about instead of cutting people who actually make money, you made that AI pay for itself?

[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Bubble dollar

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I never expected to say... Man. I bet the investors are really wishing lizard man stuck with the metaverse.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Oh no.... anyway.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Layoff the AI already :P