might as well roll dice. it boggles the mind how people keep taking jobs there and doing all this evil ass shit for them only to be rewarded with being laid off anyway, whether they did a good job or not. i get the ecomomic threat, but people still see these places as prestigious somehow.
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Well, they do have that fruit basket, so...
If they didn't use AI and instead actively choice to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems unfairly, that seems almost worse. Like, they're just admitting to discrimination, aren't they?
It's like being accused of exercising poor gun safety leading to someone's death and saying, "I exercise perfect gun safety, I actively chose to shoot them!"
So you are shifting the responsibility to ai ghost. Brilliant
That's the point. They knew who they wanted to fire, but this way they can try to hide behind "the AI did it".
And since they're a gigantic company, I'd wager that defence will be successful.
I think it’s simpler than that. They believed their own AI PR bullshit, huffed their own farts, and management thought they could get paid more to do less, offloading decisions.
Don’t ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
Unless the person/entity has a history of bad behavior, which Facebook does
Malicious and stupid aren’t mutually exclusive, but stupid often leads.
Question, if there's a mass of opinions online about how say: Meta should just focus on VR gaming. Specifically art projects, family fun experiences, and exercise programs...
...and dissolve all other aspects of the company in order to do philanthropy. Like if that opinion was widely repeated. Would the AIs just start defaulting to that purpose?
Could AI end up working for majority opinion? Democracy?
I suspect no right? Because you can twist AIs arm into saying anything right?
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