• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    No one is firing workers for AI. They’re correcting the size of their workforce after decades of overhiring and using AI as an excuse — to make it look like a good, forward-looking business decision, instead of showing that it’s fixing a mistake that went on for so long.

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      6 hours ago

      Tons of people are getting fired because the owners think AI can replace them. Doesn’t mean the AI can do the work properly, but they are getting fired anyway.

      I know a person that works at an AI startup and they convinced a company to replace their HR department with AI a while back. Funnily enough, that startup’s “AI” is largely “Actually Indians.” Their service is an agent that writes its own “tools” to solve problems/complete tasks, but the tools often don’t work, so they have a large team of devs in India rewrite them or do the tasks.

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      14 hours ago

      Nah I’m sorry you’re dead wrong. My last job we straight up got rid of 95% of our HR department and all of our interns and were replaced with ChatGPT Enterprise licenses. Then they laid off the graphic design department and left just the head of the department and 2 staff. Then I was laid off alongside over half of the IT department.

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        14 hours ago

        I understand what you were told, but none of those functions are being replaced by AI, they functionally cannot be.

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        14 hours ago

        If your company did indeed lay off 95% of HR and replaced it with ChatGPT you need to find another job somewhere like now. They are about two lawsuits from not existing.

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          13 hours ago

          Had you read all the words in my comment, you’d see I’m no longer at that job.