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Comment by operatingthetan | Hacker News Reader

Why are AI boosters turning around and trying to suggest AI now won't take our jobs? Or less jobs than previously stated?

Meanwhile Meta has so much AI compute that they don't know what to do with, and they are ready to lease it out. And corporations suddenly want token austerity across the board. OpenAI is delaying their IPO until "next year."

Something is starting to give.

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Hey investors: companies will pay big to save salaries!

Hey people: not to worry, new jobs will come!

1 + 1 = 3 because growth!

The AI replacement discourse was meant for the investors. Now that they have mostly secured the money, they want to convince the consumers.

Because enough of the plebs are realizing the future is grim, so the PR firms have been put i to action. Earlier this year as if on cue Sam and Dario changed their tune on AI replacing workers.

I think the general public is already kind of bored of AI and the phase of corporations writing blank checks for frontier models is over. The top labs keep doing shady marketing stuff (and various embarrassing stunts) and it's difficult to take their word at face value on anything.

Also Microsoft has been pouring money into AI and it's like not working at all. They might be in trouble.

Not disagreeing, but I wonder how much you have to fuck up to put a trillion dollar company in trouble. Surely it can't be that bad, right?

Nadella only understands SAAS/Cloud and everything looks like a SAAS/Cloud nail to his hammer.

They threw Copilot at every single thing they could think of with no discretion and now Copilot is the worst brand in all of AI. They don't even realize this yet and are still dumping money into the Copilot hole.

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