BarneyPiccolo comments on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If you had a customer service phone center job that was replaced with an AI chatbot, you certainly did lose your job to AI.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

Not exactly. I'm sure there are specific cases where someone lost their job because AI does it better, but in most cases they lost their job because we're in a recession and the company needed to use chatbots to cut costs.

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[–] III@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

...decided to use chatbots to cut costs. Also, AI doesn't do it better.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago*

Well, it cuts costs in the short run. In the long run it's more expensive because (for most jobs) it does a worse job and requires human intervention to fix the problems it creates, but that's next fiscal quarter's problem.

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