I assume AI lay offs are mostly investor crud anyway. I've never seen them provide any evidence or examples of where AI helped cut those jobs and it always feels like its easier to lie and say you were fired because of AI so that your fired former employees blame AI and not you. Plus, if AI is really making your org more efficient, why aren't you training your employees who are not using it effectively enough? It all smells.

The retention rates before COVID are back, and companies have way more people than they might need, that's the real reason so many places have started to slash, but blaming AI is easier.

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ldng 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Plus you can't say it's because Trump's terrible economics so safer to blame AI.

	▲	giancarlostoro an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I asked a buddy who works at one of the Big 4 and he said its the remnants of the Great Resignation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Resignation Kind of made sense to me, I saw some of those outcomes happen in a former employer as well, they had an influx of income during 2020 that was not going to stay around forever (restaurant industry).