The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!
We can’t keep rewarding Big Tech for choosing AI over people.
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Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
Submitted 22 hours ago by FallenWalnut@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Also we shout stop to buy us tech producs completly.
TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
EU is going down the same path. The “EU” alternative stuff is just bogus.
FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Agreed! There are lots of excellent EU-based alternatives.
ji59@hilariouschaos.com 20 hours 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.
biofaust@lemmy.world 21 hours 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.
Zephorah@discuss.online 20 hours ago
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 gif done fucked up reason that competition really gets them off.
Only it’s AI/data centers instead of yachts.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The all need to race yachts because there is only space for one yacht on paradise island.
0x0@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
You mean Epstein island?
rayyy@piefed.social 20 hours ago
Yet people STILL use Meta. Friends and family say switching is too hard. They are comfortable with this shit.
Zephorah@discuss.online 20 hours ago
Inertia is one of the primary negative forces that moves humanity.
snooggums@piefed.world 18 hours ago
Keeps humanity moving in the same direction.
😉
0x0@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
It’s always the network effect.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
Running out of cash for the AI runway are we?
atropa@piefed.social 16 hours ago
You guys still use meta ?
null@lemmy.org 16 hours ago
Deleted Facebook, but everyone is know is still maintaining an IG.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 20 hours 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.
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 21 hours ago
How about instead of cutting people who actually make money, you made that AI pay for itself?
db2@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
ace_garp@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Layoff the AI already :P
yggstyle@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I never expected to say… Man. I bet the investors are really wishing lizard man stuck with the metaverse.
0x0@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Oh no… anyway.
kescusay@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
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, but one thing it absolutely doesn’t seem to do is make things more efficient long term.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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 15 hours ago
Oh, but they provide hallucinations and bug-ridden, incomprehensible code faster than anyone! That’s progress, right? Right?
errer@lemmy.world 16 hours 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?