• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    9 days 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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      9 days 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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        I heard Agentic is a codework for Humans actually, and Indians/south america, eastern europeans are the ones actually controlling the AI systems.

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      9 days 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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        9 days 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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          Lmao so you know better than what I saw my company actually do? You’re absolutely out to lunch. I wasn’t told any of this. I watched it happen. Go log off.

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        9 days 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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          9 days ago

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

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            8 days ago

            Yep I missed that part, sorry. Good for you. Well not the being played off part. Hopefully you found more employment. But companies like this are toxic at best, or just downright stupid.

            I’ve had the misfortune of working for companies during the dotcom boom that had horrible business plans that I was lucky enough to leave before the bottom fell out.

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        8 days ago

        both of my bros suffered job loss, or "sidelined indefnitely. one got layed off since 23, and the current one have been “on the bench” since last year.

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      8 days ago

      I wonder if stockholders could sue after the stock tanks/profit dips because it turns out those laid off employees weren’t actually replaced by AI?

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      sounds like a troll, but they started massively laying off since 2023, both my bros were affected severely, and then the company my older bro got bought off down the line. im in a tech hub in the west, and all they are peddling in the tech conference is all AI related, before it use to be a variety of software/tech, now its the same tech with more AI.