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Comment by apwell23 | Hacker News Reader

they don't even replace any jobs, they suck out all money out that was previously going to employ people doing useful things.

I feel like we need a new word for money going to datacenters instead of paychecks. 'AI taking jobs' implies AI is doing the work , which is not the case.

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It also seems like a lot of these layoffs due to AI are just regular layoffs.

Let's reduce headcount and spin it as AI disruption! That way we dont have to acknowledge we overhired during covid AND our stock price will go to the moon as they say.

Yes. I see this with my own employer.

Crazy how these CEO are so brazenly and openly committing fraud. Market and investors are playing along because stock price is going up. Board doesn't give a fuck.

USA is one giant casino right now.

bingo!

what does this even mean?

Essentially displacing other jobs into power generation / energy extraction (something that, generally, we don’t want more of, since very little data centre energy is green) and huge investments in mass production AI capable servers which become obsolete rapidly.

what part is not clear to you?

well, for one, "datacenters instead of paychecks" is nonsensical. openai doesn't operate their own datacenters, they in fact write checks to people who do, who in turn write their own checks to their employees.

it sounds like you don't believe datacenters are "useful", either. that's a pretty hot take IMO.

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