stg22 · HackerTrans

6 months agodiscuss

It wasn't a parlor trick and could have evolved into a useful product doing a small, basic subset of what LLMs do today. The problem was IBM's leadership didn't have the slightest understanding of the technology, thought they'd invented ChatGPT and pushed it into applications far beyond its potential, e.g. diagnosing cancer.

stg22

6 months agodiscuss

There is a great deal of death in a language.

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Viewed in isolation, the number of redundancies might not be unusual, but how it's being presented to the employees is.

Before, Zuckerberg rhetorically accepted responsibility for lay-offs, but now he's making clear that the people he's firing are entirely to blame. He's deliberately talking up the firings, bringing them closer, making them feel more personal and making it a bit harder for the people fired to get replacement jobs, all for the purpose of cratering his own employees' morale.

He's making Facebook a pro-MAGA company and has decided that the way to make the workers get with the program is to intimidate them.

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