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this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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I missed predatory company Klarna declares themselves as AI company. CEO loves to spout how much of the workforce was laid off to be replaced with “AI” and their latest earnings report the CEO was an “AI avatar” delivering the report. Sounds like they should have laid him off first.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/klarna-used-an-ai-avatar-of-its-ceo-to-deliver-earnings-it-said/
No one:
Absolutely nobody:
Klarna: What if we financialized buying burritos using AI?
If there’s any good news to pull from this, people are doing buy now pay later on AI powered burritos but skipping the pay later portion.