The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!
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Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
Submitted 3 weeks ago by FallenWalnut@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Also we shout stop to buy us tech producs completly.
TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
EU is going down the same path. The “EU” alternative stuff is just bogus.
FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agreed! There are lots of excellent EU-based alternatives.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?
ji59@hilariouschaos.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
The all need to race yachts because there is only space for one yacht on paradise island.
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You mean Epstein island?
rayyy@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yet people STILL use Meta. Friends and family say switching is too hard. They are comfortable with this shit.
Zephorah@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Inertia is one of the primary negative forces that moves humanity.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Keeps humanity moving in the same direction.
😉
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s always the network effect.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Running out of cash for the AI runway are we?
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
atropa@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
You guys still use meta ?
null@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
Deleted Facebook, but everyone is know is still maintaining an IG.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
How about instead of cutting people who actually make money, you made that AI pay for itself?
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
yggstyle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I never expected to say… Man. I bet the investors are really wishing lizard man stuck with the metaverse.
ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Layoff the AI already :P
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Oh no… anyway.
kescusay@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Oh, but they provide hallucinations and bug-ridden, incomprehensible code faster than anyone! That’s progress, right? Right?
errer@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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?
andallthat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Layoffs aren’t caused by AI efficiency.
Efficiency is how CEOs justify being still able to run (no, GROW) their company with 40% less people. Besides AI, there are the dear old “you have to work harder” efficiency (see: 996 culture) and the organizational efficiency where they are all “removing managerial layers, enabling 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).