• shadowfax13@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      4 hours ago

      suits have been replacing long term essential employees with outsourced trash even before in name of global redundancy and efficiency. now they will just the ai buzz word to hide behind.

    • SpaceRanger13@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      29
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      16 hours ago

      I think shouldn’t is better to say than can’t. They are definitely going to try.

    • ceenote@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      edit-2
      16 hours ago

      Their hope is probably that AI can let current employees bear a greater workload so they can downsize.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        7 hours ago

        This is the material explanation. They expect increased productivity and therefore higher output and therefore higher profits from the same workforce. Not necessarily to downsize. Downsizing or upsizing would be dictated by a combination of the realized productivity gains and the uptake of their products by the market.

      • tarknassus@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        17
        ·
        16 hours ago

        Ding! Any gains in productivity will mean more work for less people.

        Anyone who can’t see this coming - I have several bridges for sale.

    • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      16 hours ago

      Microsoft support was already mostly useless. So, yeah, a useless AI probably could replace that, but it would also probably be more expensive.

    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      16 hours ago

      Frankly, with the garbage Microsoft is producing these days, and the rate at which the quality, for lack of a better word, is degenerating, I’m starting to consider if LLM slop might actually be less worse…