• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Loans to build data centers have stopped (red flag anyone?) so in order to pay for them they have to lay off workers. AI is killing jobs, it’s just not replacing them.

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Can we get a community rule banning any article shitty enough to use the word “slam” in a headline?

  • criss_cross@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yes. Amazon hates you. I’ve worked there. It’s one of the few places that’s openly hostile to workers and openly says they’d replace you in a heartbeat if they could.

    Leadership gives no shits. They’re all disconnected monkeys running around in circles hoping to make their bonus stock numbers go up.

    They’re the same people that tell you how said it is and critical for layoffs to happen while plugging their stupid rocket project in the same all hands meeting. They don’t care about you.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    A unionized Amazon R&D could be world-changing. Not only workers would take a lot of money from Jeff, but the power to shutdown a third of the world’s cloud infrastructure, including gov’t cloud infra is quite a bit more significant that what many other unions wield.

  • Janx@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    Companies are salivating at the prospect of replacing their loyal employees with AI. And it’s telling that they don’t even feel they have to pretend to care about workers…

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Let’s hear more about how AI is our friend, and it’s going to help us, not hurt us. Y’know, “you’re not going to lose your job to AI, you’ll lose it to someone who knows AI.”

    What they don’t say, is that the one guy who knows AI is going to replace THOUSANDS of people who don’t know it.