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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again (fortune.com)
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“Every single Monday was called ‘AI Monday,’” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could work only on AI. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only work on AI projects.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 days ago (4 children)

When all of this is over, if this ever ends, I want psychologists to study this AI obsession CEOs have now. I want to see how they can look at AI and insist that everyone be forced to use something that hinders them rather than help.

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Greed and lack of empathy?

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

I heard someone mention that AI sycophathy is a result of renforcement learning techniques used (people rated honeyed words higher, no shock really).

People with big egos tend to like sycophants because they reenforce their narratives they have about themselves. Big egos also tend to take up the majority of cheif type roles, either because privlidge gives advantages to both and some because a big ego makes risks seem smaller them.

Its like we made the perfect machine to suck money from them. The sleezyst sales person with no ego. Just endless text telling you what you want to belive.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

  1. Board/shareholders want company to do AI because everyone is doing AI so you can't possibly be maxing shareholder value without doing enough AI

  2. CEO has to be able to show metrics about everyone doing AI

  3. ????

  4. Not profit, that's for sure, everyone downstream from the CEO suffers, long term profitability is hindered, but at least while the bubble is still ongoing, share prices are temporarily higher because AI

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

There is so much science to be done once the madness is over.