IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments

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• alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reducing human oversight and intervention in HR will definitely not lead to problems down the road.

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  • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I look forward to getting the hiring LLM to glitch and hire me at an insane salary and bonus.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Honestly that’s not that crazy of a possibility

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  • Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    IBM’s legal fees will skyrocket

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• andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just want to say that this is absolute clown-level CEOing.

  Let’s just set aside the naked antipathy for labor concerns. Let’s pretend we’re heartless investors.

  If I heard a CEO say this, my first thoughts would be:

  • Why the fuck are you declaring an intention to remove people BEFORE the replacement is ready? If the technology is so ready, then deploy it and cut the workers after you’ve implemented it. Do you have any idea what you’re talking about? This sophomore level shit. You sound like a 14 year old on Twitter.

  • Why the fuck are you generating this kind of press? Particularly for a company with a FAMOUS history of loyalty to its workers? Even if it’s now bullshit, you’re pissing on the brand, asshole.

  • Wasn’t Watson a big famous over-hyped public embarrassment? Did you learn nothing about managing expectations?

  • The work you say you’re excited to replace is the core business services we sell, and I don’t know what product you’re talking about. You’ve just been hugely scooped. You seem pretty excited and flailing when our lunch looks like its ready to be eaten by OpenAI and Microsoft.

  This guy sounds like a moron.

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As far as I can tell, the troublesome comments were:

  “That means you can get the same work done with fewer people,” he said at the time. “That’s just the nature of productivity. I actually believe that the first set of roles that will get impacted are - what I call - back office, white-collar work.”

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  • fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Someone should make a really good AI suite for CEO tasks and replace the most expensive workers

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    • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every piece of data available shows no correlation between executive pay and performance. Fire your CEO and save the cash on AI.

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    • ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The only thing chatgpt does well is pump out corporate fluff, I’d say we’re already there.

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• rivalary@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This company famously stopped being loyal to its employees back in the 90s.

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  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    About the same time they stopped being relevant too. This is another one of those great American zombie companies that continues to live on simply based off inertia from successes of decades past.

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