Firms are trying to dress up layoffs as a good news story rather than bad news as attributing staff reductions to AI adoption conveys a more positive message to investors.

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    6 hours ago

    Layoffs are only used to prop up quartly/annual profits for shareholders. Period. once that is acheived, the CEO gets his bonus and doesn’t give a fuck if it happens again because if he gets fired he’ll have a golden parachute as well.

  • kadu@scribe.disroot.org
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    10 hours ago

    AI is not good enough to replace workers.

    Even for writing SEO blog posts, which are extremely simple and something AI should nail, agencies are coming back to people after realizing AI is simply not good enough.