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.

I never said ppl are directly writing checks to datacenter. I said "money is going to" . You can't read?

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

It "sounds like" you are here to pick idiotic fights.

I don't know why ppl don't seek mental health help instead of being an pathetic troll online.

ah, the ad hominem attack, the gold standard of discourse.