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Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears by cm2012 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:57AM (#44974358)
I know a company that replaced their sales call center with an AI calling bot instead. The bot got better sales and higher feedback scores from customers.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears by rs186 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @12:05PM (#44974434)
And I happen to know a different company that regrets their decision to do something similar:

https://tech.co/news/klarna-reverses-ai-overhaul

Is my anecdotal evidence any better than yours?

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears by hnfong on Thursday August 21, 2025 @03:52PM (#44977250)
I'm going to interpret the two stories as "50% businesses find LLMs useful" (sample size 2).
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears by Rebelgecko on Thursday August 21, 2025 @09:46PM (#44980243)
I would argue yes, because you provided a source and a verifiable company name
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears by sameermanek on Thursday August 21, 2025 @12:05PM (#44974441)
I know a company that did the same and lost billions of dollars
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