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AI layoffs (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by vga@sopuli.xyz to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 85 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Shareholders: why not all three?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hedge fund manager: hold my beer.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Humanity: yes, let's replace all of the above. 100% unemployment rate is the only way to go.

[–] hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

Honestly 100% unemployed becuase we have a good universal income system or something would be great. But sadly it looks like we're in a different timeline :(

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

*Several steps later*

Narrator: And that, folks, is how we got the Utopia we live in, by replacing all the work with AI, and letting people enjoy their lives

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Haha. No. Nothing so hopeful. The rich people will get even richer and everyone that used to be working class and middle class die a slow death.

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Now I wander what would happen if only rich people would survive and I'm sure somebody has already written an sf book about that

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

Like the planet solaria: https://fandom.adminforge.de/asimov/wiki/Solaria

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah. That's (arguably) the background scenario to Asimov's book "The Naked Sun" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun

Edit: Ooh, Django already gave a cooler link to the same: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10729278

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Considering that C-suite executives are usually fantastically expensive, they'd be a logical position to automate (assuming AI worked like suits think it does). For some veeeery strange reason no board of directors has suggested replacing themselves with AIs

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’d be super easy to replace Sam Altman with a bot that spits out keywords known to increase OpenAI shares.

Waitaminute… Sam alt-man?

[–] Skepticpunk@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I know, right? It's like he's an incredibly shitty sci-fi villain.