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Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount (www.reuters.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] 50 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!

We can't keep rewarding Big Tech for choosing AI over people.

We need to make the switch to support smaller & better businesses - reminder about purchasewithpurpose.io to help you get started.

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Also we shout stop to buy us tech producs completly.

    https://www.goeuropean.org/

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    EU is going down the same path. The "EU alternative" stuff is just bogus. It's just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    EU is going down the same path. The “EU alternative” stuff is just bogus. It’s just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.

    It's not bogus if you are yourself European or if the alternative is Big Tech. But I feel you. There are lots of shitty European companies that are not that much better. I avoided the switch to Spotify because even though they are "European" they gave a lot of money to Joe Rogan and to Trump on his inauguration.

    Also, the EU did recently reject the chat control proposal so at least that's something...

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months 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.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months 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.

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