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I know for a fact that companies have fired people and replaced them with AI. I’ve met with business owners and they told me.
by daft_pink 1y ago
I know for a fact that companies have fired people and replaced them with AI. I’ve met with business owners and they told me.
- emp17344 1y agoGood to know, but for me, the study is more convincing than your anecdote.
- daft_pink 1y agoI think it's the fact that they say zero effect, which is obviously not true.
- emp17344 1y agoThey didn’t say there’s literally zero effect, they said that there’s negligible disruption to job market from the introduction of AI.
- maxfurman 1y agoEven a net zero effect would mean some people were replaced with AI and the same amount of people were hired to use AI
- scottlamb 1y agoBe careful with "they". The "zero effect" in the headline was likely written by a Register editor, two steps removed from the authors of the study. I think the quote in the fourth paragraph is more telling: > "Overall, our metrics indicate that the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT’s release 33 months ago, undercutting fears that AI automation is currently eroding the demand for cognitive labor across the economy," said Martha Gimbel, Molly Kinder, Joshua Kendall, and Maddie Lee in a report summary.
- bedatadriven 1y agoOne thing that is real is companies using LLMs to fill roles they couldn't afford to spend on before. Like the tourist who uses Google Translate on a trip to Japan: in principle they are saving 10k on the cost of a professional interpreter. On the other hand they never would have had the resources for a professional interpreter.
- teaearlgraycold 1y agoWhat roles were these people working?
- daft_pink 1y agoDeveloper, replaced with cursor.
- teaearlgraycold 1y agoDo you have more information? As a cursor user I don’t see how you can replace a developer with that product.
- sciencejerk 1y agoI imagine these businesses probably don't fire ALL their Devs, instead they reduce team sizes
- teaearlgraycold 1y agoI’m sure that’s the case. I’m just curious about the devs that lost their jobs. I feel like if cursor can replace you then you must have already been on the chopping block. Or maybe the company’s development needs had declined.
- ath3nd 1y ago[dead]
- gnulinux996 1y ago> they told me > I know for a fact That's not what a fact is; if we took everything written on businesswire or what the business owners / salespeople told us at face value then we'd be in deep trouble.