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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by nemeski@mander.xyz to c/workreform@lemmy.world
 

‘Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,” Galetti wrote. “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones). We’re convicted that we need to be organized more leanly.”

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm just copying and pasting. 😄

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you did just paste that, looks like the Verge corrected it since! I wonder if they were using a competitor's AI to generate the article, or if it was just the good old typo+autocorrect method?

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

I'm hearing that they left a stray " at the end in their signature, probably LLM for sure.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Quite the slip, for the AWS guy.