Malicious compliance and use it solely for internal emails.
Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'
Submitted 10 months ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
can i send an AI bot to all my Teams meetings?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Microsoft is in the process of downsizing to the tune of 3% of its global workforce and rising.
Could be they really are unironically cruising towards a CEO overseeing a bunch of spam bot email accounts they’re treating as headcount.
riskable@programming.dev 10 months ago
The AI said that trying to reason with you is a waste of precious tokens.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Its to use the employees to train Ai to replace them and they know it.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Nah its just part of the MLM scheme that is “AI”. Its useful because they said it would be useful. Its worth the investment because it cost a lot of money. Once you realize that all these companies care about is revenue and “growth” then it all clicks. It doesnt have to work or be profitable, it just needs to look good to investers.
They will even go as far as firing loads of workers and saying publicly that they “replaced them with AI” while in reality those workers were just doing something that the company was willing to sacrifice. They just replaced something with nothing to make it look like their magic AI can actually do things.
Cory Doctorow put it better than i ever could: pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/
The whole post is good but i will just quote this section.The “boy genius” story is an example of Silicon Valley’s storied “reality distortion field,” pioneered by Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, Zuck is a Texas marksman, who fires a shotgun into the side of a barn and then draws a target around the holes. Jobs is remembered for his successes, and forgiven his (many, many) flops, and so is Zuck. The fact that pivot to video was well understood to have been a catastrophic scam didn’t stop people from believing Zuck when he announced “metaverse.”
Zuck lost more than $70b on metaverse, but, being a boy genius Texas marksman, he is still able to inspire confidence from credulous investors. Zuck’s AI initiatives generated huge interest in Meta’s stock, with investors betting that Zuck would find ways to keep Meta’s growth going, despite the fact that AI has the worst unit economics of any tech venture in living memory. AI is a business that gets more expensive as time goes on, and where the market’s willingness to pay goes down over time. This makes the old dotcom economics of “losing money on every sale, but making it up in volume” look positively rosy.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Ai definitely can’t replace many (if any) microsoft employees.
shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
suits have been replacing long term essential employees with outsourced trash even before in name of global redundancy and efficiency. now they will just the ai buzz word to hide behind.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Not even the guys who call me on the phone to tell me that I have a virus on my computer?
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Microsoft support was already mostly useless. So, yeah, a useless AI probably could replace that, but it would also probably be more expensive.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Frankly, with the garbage Microsoft is producing these days, and the rate at which the quality, for lack of a better word, is degenerating, I’m starting to consider if LLM slop might actually be less worse…
ceenote@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Their hope is probably that AI can let current employees do more work so they can lay people off.
SpaceRanger13@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think shouldn’t is better to say than can’t. They are definitely going to try.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Have any of you realized how much money we spent on this?!”
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“But the results are objectively much worse than if I just did it myself, sir!”
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 months ago
“No one cares about the quality of your work, only the quantity!”
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“You’re firing me for using AI to read and respond to your email?”
floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You have 10 minutes to clear your desk and get out. Not a team player!
GeekyOnion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Basically, yeah.
Zoldyck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Good luck with that Microsoft