Find me the real world use cases of it replacing people for cheaper. You can't, they don't exist right now, it's all cover for layoffs to happen while keeping stonk price high.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Receptionists and call centers. Really, I have first hand experience.
The ai is infinitely patient, can handle infinite calls at once. The caller experience is often higher because they don't have to wait on hold or get a call back, it's getting better at solving harder problems.
AI as customer service is shit. I wasted an entire day waiting for an electrician to show up while the clanker I was texting to kept reassuring me the techs were on the way. They were supposed to arrive at 4 and by the time I gave up on the company it was 10. It turned out it never even alerted the techs to show up at my property. Humans are way better even if you have to wait for them to call back, they can be held accountable at least.
Hasn't happened yet. India actually has filled more call center jobs lately.
I have yet to use AI to solve any actual problems faster than I could have solved them myself because I am constantly to having to go back and check every aspect of its work.
Interesting to speculate how many of these are "Bullshit Jobs", which arguably are the only ones AI is capable of replacing. While this may suck in the short term (especially for USians and others without a decent social security net), in the long run it may lead to more fulfilling work.
"This category was down by 0.2% from May of 2024 to May of 2025, a tiny drop, but one made more notable by employment in general trending up 0.8% in the same time period."
So it just dropped enough for the people deploying ai to realize it sucks and people are cheaper and better. Jeez media really likes to write the headline that keep the advertisers happy.
Actually most job growth has been in Healthcare, a field that is very resistant to AI right now. So if you remove that I think the trend is even less significant (and probably not anything that holds up to much scrutiny).
All of capitalism is keeping advertisers happy. Advertisers and shareholders.
Maybe we should switch to co-ops and employee-owned companies to fix that bullshit
This category was down by 0.2% from May of 2024 to May of 2025, a tiny drop, but one made more notable by employment in general trending up 0.8% in the same time period.
Correlation much?
Comparing a trend in a category expected to be affected by AI, to general employment doesn't mean the drop is because of the expected reason. Could be those businesses are suffering job losses for other, more mundane reasons.
Hopefully the AI bubble will slowly lose air instead of popping all at once and we won't have a devastating crash.
Maybe?
As a generation that has experienced several once in a lifetime events. Lol. Lmao even.
- Mass layoffs due to AI.
- Economy crashes due to AI bubble burst.
- Businesses collapse because AI can't replace the people that got replaced, especially in the long term
- Economy sucks so there's no money to hire the people who lost their jobs
- War and climate change get worse and affect the nouveaux poore more than ever before
- A huge volcanic eruption or meteor hit causes local deaths somewhere and worldwide catastrophe
- Half-Life 3 releases, but nobody has money or hardware to play it
- Aliens invade
- Economy goes wild with some stupid new tech.
I have to say, this is definitely right otp