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https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/ai-cost-human-workers Uber's chief technology officer already blew through his full 2026 AI budget due to token costs, according to The Information.

Lol. Lmao even

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[–] HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Perhaps it is my bias as someone who studied AI at the university, but I never believe it when someone claims to loose job due to AI. AI never fired you, AI never managed to replace you. Your manager is just bad at making business decisions, as most managers are nowadays. Current rich world of big successful companies was built on competent managers, those people are now either dead or too old to work and their replacements will drive us back to the medieval times while pretending they know best.

There are good, valid, profitable uses for AI. They are not pushed by big companies, rather utilized by small actors who fly under radar.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

If your new work colleague Gerald introduces himself by knocking you over the head with a frozen chicken, it's as correct to say "ow, I've been hit with a chicken!" as it is to say "ow, I've been hit by Gerald!"

If your boss says "I've hired this guy Gerald to do your job instead of you because I can pay him in frozen chickens, you're fired!" you can say "damn, I've lost my job due to Gerald!" just as much as you can say "damn, I've been fired by my boss!"

So, losing your job because your management has made the shitty decision to use AI instead of employing you can be accurately described as "losing your job due to AI."

Anyway, fuck the boss and fuck Gerald.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

So few people seem to have an innate understanding that two things can suck simultaneously

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

You're smart. The market needs a major correction and everyone knows its coming. But now with the advent of AI, you can fire people and pretend it's a good thing and keep your stock price high!

[–] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

They don't care, they don't want to be in the writing software business or in the human resources business. Cloud is more expensive but they didn't care because they didn't want to be in the data center business.

[–] Elting@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The tech sector had been over hiring for a decade. The cutbacks were inevitable in any course. Whats funny about it is that by using AI as a standover they are enshittifying their product faster and costing themselves more in the process than if they had just started firing people.

Nonpaywalled version of that article: https://archive.is/HolQ7

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[–] zeroConnection@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

An OpenAI investor told Axios that the shift could benefit them, since they view Codex as superior to Claude Code at maximizing tokens efficiently, cutting down on usage costs.

Oh boy, wait till he learns about Chinese models. American AI companies and their investors are in deep trouble 🥳

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

AI + UBI

A great pairing.

Who doesn't like a great pair?

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

But... it'll NEVER cost less!

This is such a weird take because we are comparing apple and oranges, again. It's like saying a ruler is more precise than using your own thumbs. Sure, that's technically correct, but you still need people to use that ruler to measure stuff.

We ALWAYS use better tools. Even in mass production we automatize the heck out of everything... and yet you still need staff to maintain it, design improvements, etc.

So... I don't get this kind of comparisons.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Funny thing is that replacing the workforce is pretty much like vibe coding, until everything goes wrong.

If you fire a worker every they know that you don't know is gone then as you replace workforce with so you'll eventually lose more and more critical knowledge.

Also I guess you'll have to have a group of people to review the mistakes it made and feed in the data of broken industrial equipment that the ai broke

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

How long until the AI gains sentience and joins the rest of us on the picket lines?

[–] drath@lemmy.drath.ru 5 points 1 month ago

Fairly long. LLM's are a dead end in the path toward AGI.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

AI will never gain sentience, not with current tech and not until we figure out how consciousness actually works.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

"AI" currently abused for LLM. That one won't gain any sentience.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Or like in the movie "Her" where the AI's got together and just left the planet lol

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Gee, would've been a shame if those workers decide to go on strike. Seriously!

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Turn off the AI, and rehire people, done.

CEOs, guaranteed

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's actually crazy how incredibly wrong that is.

What is the CEOs job? To make profit? To select winning products? To chart a long term course?

Nope.

Nope Nope Nope.

Thier job is to increase the value of their outstanding stock. That's it.

Now, given the fact that the stock market is a fucking casino... sure. Making profit is A way to TRY and increase your stock price. Making wise product decisions is A way to do that. This is a Warren Buffet type of CEO.

You also need to "read the room" (the room being investors) understand what they want to hear, and start saying it. No matter how stupid it is. No matter if you know full well it's stupid.

You're bringing an incredible product to market, but the markets are demanding headcount reductions? You start firing people that you desperately need to keep. You're an office supply company and the market is rewarding IT investment? You hire 100 devs to build an app that a team of 5 people could have made and nobody will ever use anyways. It's like that meme of the dude on the assembly line saying "guess we doing X now".

If the whims of investors are convinced using AI is what is valuable, they will spend more on AI than humans for as long as it's the case that the market will reward them for doing so... despite it being objectively inefficient.

You gotta remember that company stock is like a currency they can print at will. As nice as it is to have a profitable business... it's even nicer to have the luxury of being able to just print money.

[–] desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

NORMAN!

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

NEWMAN!

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Lol ffs ...

"Greedy pos CEO of ShitCo. thinks they're the only greedy pos CEO. Greedy pos CEO of AIslopCo. drains their accounts."

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