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[–] 29 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Or: a recession is driving job cuts and AI is being used to distract investors from bad economic conditions.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 6 months ago

    Oh it's very much that. Every single study that's come out on companies adopting AI shows that it makes no meaningful difference to productivity. So, it's very clearly just an excuse to do layoffs.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago*

    I was curious which ones they attributed to automation (which is only mentioned 4 times)

    However, the analysis suggested that many layoffs are pre-emptive cost-cutting measures aimed at funding AI infrastructure, rather than a direct result of automation replacing jobs at scale.

    Word. Threw it in the last sentence. A+ journalism.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I appreciate the AI art to go with it

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    [–] 56 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    AI job cuts

    AI art for the article

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Downvote, block OP and move on. The lemmyverse is small enough that manual curation is viable, especially after you block lemmy.world communities.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Downvote, block OP and move on.

    This particular account has dozens of alts across as many instances

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The link in the bio has a list of accounts so that people who don't want to see the posts can block them

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Ah. Thankfully, they all have the same username.

    I don't know if there is an instance-neutral way to give directions, but for me I could get a convenient list of all of their usernames as links by using the search function. Then, on desktop, I could open all of them in different tabs (for me it's middle mouse button to open without changing tabs), then put my cursor over 'block user' and use the keyboard shortcut for closing a tab (crtl-w for me) to block them all in under a minute.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    whats wrong with lemmy world? noob here tryin to learn

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Nothing really, they're just the largest instance, so by virtue of having a massive population, they have a large number of people with shitty opinions.

    Per capita, they're a fine instance. Not like ml, lemmygrad or hexbear, who have a much higher number of people with shitty opinions per capita

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Lemmy.world is required to uphold German law, which is becoming increasingly draconic in forbidding advocacy for justice for the Palestinian people. Its moderators are happy to play cops.

    One of the way social media federation can fail is that if everybody goes onto the same instance, that instance has a de facto monopoly again. Reddit didn't have to kill other websites, those websites atrophied naturally because reddit is where everything is happening. This would make our community vulnerable to issues with the instance, in this case the legal jurisdiction.

    So as a user, I vote with my feet. I've likewise blocked lemmy.ml communities and dbzer0 communities for denying or excusing genocide by the USSR and China and for their support and heavy use of generative AI respectively.

    I don't pre-emptively block users from these instances because users can make new accounts on other instances easily, so I trust you to do that when you feel uncomfortable with your current instance. But communities have inertia, and are likely to stay long after their moderators and users have grown to dislike the instance, so I make it easier by being social elsewhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I found Lemmy world kind of basic/conservative. Not like far-right, but more passive "don't say anything too mean about the power structures that hurt you". Just an impression, no real data to back it up.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Correct headline: AI provides convenient excuse for layoffs

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    We’ll see if the trend this year continues, but looking rough

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I do not understand the logic of these companies. If everyone is jobless, everyone is moneyless. If everyone is moneyless, who is supposed to pay for their products and services? I fucking hate it here...

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, people all over the world buy stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Now we just focus on what really matters... Picking fruit!

    3months later....

    The new AI Fruit recovery system AFRS at the Chiquita banana plantation. Having slave from their original name...slave plantation... CB is now finally profitable....

    3months later.... I used to write AFRS code, now I clean robot spills and oil hinges and rollers.

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