Not AI just capitalism
Rich assholes firing people to make the leftovers work twice as hard to “incorporate AI” into their workflow is though.
The job losses are fucking REAL, and everyone expects you to use this tedious bullshit now.
Business idiots are killings jobs. Generative AI is just their excuse to do it and threat to make people feel more replacable.
It’s on the verge of pedantic, but I feel it important that we blame people for lying and causing harm, and not let them hide behind the imagined inevitability of tech and progress.
Generative AI can’t replace shit, but the lie that they can and do, is the weapon wielded more than the tech itself.
I used to be on the gross margin improvement team. Basically our job was to implement projects which reduced cost.
I don’t think a single person’s job was eliminated because of my work. I remember creating about 35 jobs. For example I had a project where I identified about $900k in potential savings per year. We had to spend $50k one time and hire an employee for about $60k per year but still saved about $900k.
Employees are cheap(even expensive ones). Simple things like hire an employee to check something at step 3 so you are not paying people to do steps 4-20 will easily pay for itself if that issue at step 3 happens enough. Like for example that’s the whole point of unit testing software. Pay someone to write tests all day everyday even at an high salary, say $150k reduces costs of tech support, reduces cost of later testing, improves value of product, increases sales etc. If you want to be negative this is value stolen from the worker. But if an employee doesn’t make you a profit, why are they a employee? Like if you pay $70k for an employee who causes $50k in revenue… Fire them and make yourself a 20k raise. Now if you pay someone $70k and they make you $700k that’s immoral…
It’s not a lie, it’s wishful thinking.
Please have babies.
It’s just driving down working conditions and wages
While the analysis suggests ChatGPT — one of the most widely used text-based forms of generative AI — is rapidly changing the mix of occupations on offer to tech workers, it is not shifting the composition of jobs throughout the entire US economy at a much swifter pace than the arrival of computers and the internet.
The wording vs the actual graphs is suspicious.
Is it
“AI is not killing jobs”
or
“AI is not killing jobs much faster than [things that have definitely killed jobs]”
Yeah cmon, why should we care about floods, they’re not killing people faster than avalanches, or earthquakes.
Seem to be ‘snucked in’ here while Trump is holding back latest job-numbers from the public, and besides: I’m sure US corps, or Oligarchy wouldn’t fund/fiddle their numbers, and conclude, in a way that helped them financially in a crashing economy. We must trust them ! We must …
Well yes
