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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/13/ai-companies-rushed-workers-fallout
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
Meta has scaled back plans to axe staff and use more AI agents after the company found employees were spending more and more time cleaning up technical and security errors, Reuters reported. And after thinning its workforce, especially middle managers, in a 2023 efficiency push, the company is expanding its managerial ranks again, LinkedIn posts from workers show.
Weird, middle managers are among the few things more worthless and wasteful than AI in the job space.
Replying to @13igtyme@startrek.website
Why are we writing articles on what the biggest megacorps are doing with the technology? Meta is one of the most braindead corporations I’ve ever seen, wasting billions and billions of dollars on failed tech after failed tech. Microsoft can’t stop pushing their shitty Copilot, which isn’t even on anybody’s LLM radar. Anything Elon Musk leads consistently makes dumbass decisions that scare us all.
If anything, it just shows how stupid these megacorps are.
Copilot isn’t an LLM, it’s a tool to use LLMs and Generative AI. It’s very useful when people with no understanding of a topic speak vehemently about it because they can be tagged and easily ignored on other topics too.
Replying to @TheOctonaut@piefed.zip
Actually, the model itself is called Prometheus, but Microsoft has slapped their Copilot label on so many things that it’s hard to know what they are talking about.