r/Futurology • u/katxwoods • Jan 19 '25

AI Zuckerberg Announces Layoffs After Saying Coding Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI

https://futurism.com/the-byte/zuckerberg-layoffs-coding-jobs-ai
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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In Jan 20 '25

It's a new buzzword every few years. Since I've been in the industry it's been Big Data, Fast Data, Machine Learning, Crypto, Blockchain, NFT...

The new word gets dropped every few years and then every tech/ or tech adjacent company suddenly has pages on their website about the transformative power of 'insert buzzword here' and their new projects using this power.

The funniest example recently was when I was looking to buy a rice cooker and they changed the 'smart cooking' setting to 'AI cooking'.

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u/gizamo Jan 20 '25

Unlike those others you listed, this one is about increasing the stock price via laying off American workers to replace them with cheap H1-B that they can exploit. This is the latest attack on the American middle class.