Most of the time the companies say the layoffs are because AI is doing people jobs, but the reality is that making things that use AI is just a lot more expensive. And enabling employees to use AI more than the free tier is really expensive too. So, they need to cut cost elsewhere to balance it out.
Clay Magouyrk (CEO):
Larry, in order to pay for these datacenters we might need to cut up to 20,000 jobs.
Larry Ellison:
Cut 30,000.
Clay Magouyrk:
But Larry, 20,000 would be more than…
Larry Ellison:
As long as we’re going with Gary Oldman:
“Fire everyone.”
“What do you mean everyone?”
“EVERYONE!!!”
I’m going to watch this movie, right now, but the RiffTrax version
A really good reference
“Zorg, you’re a monster.”
“…I know.”