These bonzos want the world economy to collapse so there will be massive layoffs, allowing them to offer AI bots to companies and governments to replace human workers.

  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 minutes ago

    These bonzos want the world economy to collapse so there will be massive layoffs, allowing them to offer AI bots to companies and governments to replace human workers.

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but Amazon didn’t go the AI route that far. They are a marketplace for AI-gen products, they added summaries to their storefronts, but there is that as far as I know. What Bezos probably wants - is to see newer weirdos like Altman, maybe Musk to get choked, so he becomes the uncontested capitalist #1.

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    It will eliminate the weak meaning the companies in actual competitive markets, so monopolists like Amazon can buy them up and monopolize even more markets.

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      Yep. Trillion dollar companies are so huge that a deep recession only mildly impacts revenue.

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        The wealth disparity is genocide and has been ongoing for decades. It doesn’t need to be men with guns or blades to be a genocide.

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          The wealth disparity is genocide and has been ongoing for decades.

          Since agriculture was invented if you are going to like that about it.

          Poors suffer so that better people live their best lives.

          The rich ascended so far up that they no longer fear the mob

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    4 hours ago

    Except that it won’t eliminate anyone because they will all get a federal bailout.

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      4 hours ago

      Are you talking about the AI / big tech companies? No they won’t.

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        2 hours ago

        My fellow traveler in Christ, the feds have already invested 8.9 billion to keep Intel from suffocating to death in its own farts

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        3 hours ago

        I imagine they’re referencing the 2008 precedence, although that was banks. But these tech companies are now ‘worth more’ than the banks so they may be considered ‘too big to fail’. Wiki entry for 2008 bailout: Bailout Link

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    Uh won’t this have the opposite effect? I can see an article like this in the near future:

    “Companies marketing AI replacements for workers flounder after mass layoffs result in increasingly cheap, plentiful labor pool”