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[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, I've been thinking for a while that all this AI promotion isn't about actually replacing workers. It's to scare away all the talks about liveable wages. And then the reduced wages will be used as an excuse to replace legacy employees who earned raises during the "old wages" times and now, "don't make sense to keep because they make the same amount as entire teams."

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago

Which, if you think about it, is so absurd because the average LLM is probably more costly in terms of energy used and overall ecological damage than a traditional employee anyway, but since those are economic externalities, the CEOs don't really care because they don't see the impact directly on their spreadsheets as it's the LLM companies paying for power and wrecking nature, while they're just paying for access to the compute power.

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