Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again

doctortofu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• HejMedDig@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They are so hung up on replacing employees with AI, but they don’t know how, so they force the employees to use AI, in the hope that the employee will teach the AI how to replace them

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Off-topic, but not-so-fun fact: lemmings don’t actually follow each other off cliffs in mass suicide events. The people filming the documentary actually scared and chased them to get them to panic and do that.

  Horrible, I know

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  • doctortofu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    True and completely right, but I lack the vocabulary to replace it with something more accurate and still evocative enough :)

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve heard the term “Driving towards the mountains like the Donner party” which while grim does work to illustrate the point.

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      • doctortofu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Haha, that's neat! Morbid, but neat - I'll have to remember it, thanks! :)

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bah, vulture capital.

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• 5too@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  AI will now supplement all interactions with the genius businessma

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