PieFedXbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss'
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It's funny because companies are using AI for job listing's and are simultaneously getting swamped by hundreds or thousands of applications due to AI as well.
AI is completely messing up the job application process. Not like the process was any better prior to AI but now it's an even bigger mess
onlookerMatt Turnbull doesn't have a singular clue what LLMs do and what they should be used for. Except touching up your resume, I think that's actually a good use for LLMs. However, he also suggested using it as a career coach and even a psychiatrist. That man is a raving lunatic.
PrivateNoobYou think the producer was trying to be an ass? Or like, are they just that deep in the cult that they think this is helpful advice?
It's probably the latter because the former implies not huffing AI paint and I just don't believe anyone that high up making such a stupid statement isn't huffing AI paint.
it’s kind of terrifying how much power has been concentrated in the hands of people so eager to adopt such a flimsy ideological/religious cause.
Don't be that shocked. Humans make their minds up based on instinct and emotion and then justify it later. It is common for all of us to use flimsy excuses (when better ones don't present themselves) to rationalize our ideals.
I call out people who support the same things I do for flimsy reasons for that reason. I doubt I'm any more immune to it than anyone else, it's just easier to spot it in others than ourselves. Shit sometimes I spot flaws in my own reasoning only when someone else gives voice to it. That's fucking aggravating.
That being said, it's completely self-serving and upsetting to me because the people affected are more like me than him, and I could easily be next on the chopping block, and people like that dude will give not a single shit.
I… can‘t believe this is real, what in the condescending fuck is wrong with that idiot
You need to have no capacity for empathy to be a ceo
I think it shows how much they dont understand how it is to live without money.
maybe they already replaced this producer with AI.
Either he’s been selling the AI kool aid for so long that he actually believes his own bullshit, or he’s just stuck in “must sell AI for all things at all times always” mode. Either way it’s a new level of depravity for these exec assholes.
I worked for an Internet startup in the '90s and at one point we were sucking up to R. J. Reynolds' venture capital division for more funding. This tobacco company had so much fucking money they had actually branched out into venture capitalism to do something with it. The VCs came to visit us one day; we were in a non-smoking office and these assholes spent the entire day literally chain-smoking in the meeting room. We had not much ventilation and the smoke was so thick you couldn't see to the end of the hallway. I kept walking past the meeting room and loudly coughing and my bosses eventually sent me home.
We ended up not getting any money from them. The only good part of this story is that these guys have all surely died horrible deaths from cancer or emphysema by now. But in order to sell the lie that cigarettes aren't harmful, these R. J. Reynolds executives had first convinced themselves of it. The human capacity for self-delusion is truly remarkable.
Imagine if the CEO who laid you off was also your psychologist/therapist who you have to turn to.
What in the actual fuck is wrong with these people.
Decades and decades of no consequences for their actions. If your bonus gets bigger despite every meaningful kpi you aren't are great CEO, you are a capitalist exploiting your resources.
Being rewarded for their actions.
Yeah. Yeah you aren't wrong 😥
AI would replace CEOs better than devs and you’d save a lot more money. What’s the issue if we’re so confident in it? Aren’t we supposed to think of the shareholders?
I mean that would save millions and millions of dollars right off the top. Between salary, bonuses and stock were talking hundreds of millions in some cases. Maximum shareholder value increase.
no no we can’t risk the future of the company on AI.
Given his post, he's likely already using an AI for making decisions and writing emails (and LinkedIn slop). He's still siphoning away company money for his bloated paycheck, of course - what's that saying about having your cake and eating it, too?
I prefer having your cake and fucking it, too.
That's how you get genital fungi
Immediately 95% of companies would be better run.
It's quite amazing how these people show their asses on LinkedIn and think it makes them look smart, instead of proving that they completely lost touch with reality. It fits the picture that one the very same day they laid of thousands, Microsoft also send out an invitation to hear them pitch genAI at GamesCom. That's corpo brain on late stage capitalism.
Siri, how should I get revenge?
This is the most tone deaf dystopian shit I've ever read, jesus christ.
There it is. "Use AI" is the new "learn to code".
These people are lucky Light Yagami isn’t real.
This is wonderful advice! Thank you, John Xbox! I may be without a job, but I will keep on using your products like the mindless consumer I am, so that your paychecks will keep on growing.
God, this is so out of touch that it stops being funny and becomes genuinely uncanny. Like, are these people even real? Are they robots piloted by Skynet? Am I the only real person on the entire planet?
I would tell that person the same thing after shifting my foot up their
ass.Goddamned shameless ghoul, holy fucking shit. We're really in full-on Idiocracy mode, only these morons feel like they have to mention AI in every single sentence instead of Carl's Jr...
In response to that, I reccomend a swift boot up the Xbox producers ass!
Should be in nottheonion.
Assholes gonna be assholes.