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AI layoffs (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by vga@sopuli.xyz to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 85 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Shareholders: why not all three?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hedge fund manager: hold my beer.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 months ago

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

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

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