2w ago

Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to 'reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss'

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2w ago

Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to 'reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss'

www.pcgamer.com /gaming-industry/game-development/xbox-exec-suffers-bout-of-terminal-linkedin-brain-suggests-folks-laid-off-by-microsoft-use-ai-to-reduce-the-emotional-and-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/

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This person is so out of touch.
It's so absurd that it doesn't even sound like a real story.
- I do appreciate LinkedIn because it helps surface how social bubbles distort perception.
  That includes Fedi/Lemmy. This guy is painfully out of touch, but so is everyone else. That's the entire problem of the unmoored, atomized media and interaction landscape we've built for ourselves this century.
  I mean, I'm not excusing the guy, this was a pretty dumb post, but my first reaction to these is to wonder what dumb, unhinged assumptions my personal reality filters are inflicting on me that won't make headlines, you know?
  
  I appreciate your compassion and all but like, they just got fired from that place, and the guy is like “to alleviate the pain of being fired from GloboCorp, GloboCorp is giving the former GloboTherapy team a 30 day free trial of GloboCorp brand GloboTherapy”.
  Like if I got fired from Pizza Hut and they were like “but here’s a 10% off coupon on your next order” I’m not fucking ordering Pizza Hut again for the rest of my life, and that’s just pizza hut
  
  Good point.
- Sounds like a precursor symptom of what Brian Thompson suffered from.
  
  Oh no that was terminal
- He knows exactly what he's doing, and he's going to continue to do it until people stop expecting machines to solve all their problems for them.

I said it before, and I'll say it again - this is a scene from Idiocracy playing before our eyes, only the corporate morons were brainwashed into putting "AI is awesome!" in every sentence instead of "brought to you by Carl's Junior"...
~~Brawndo~~ AI - it has electrolytes!
- These corporate messages always remind me of that Lego Movie song: 🎶 Everything is Awesome 🎵

When you get sucked into a thing or obsess over it for a period of time, you start recommending it as the solution for everything. Everything is a nail and you hold the hammer. It also turns everything you say into a veiled marketing pitch. That’s what has happened with AI brain rot execs and the tech bros that follow them thinking they, too, will eventually be rich.

LLMs ain't gonna replace programmers any time soon (they might get us laid off, but they're not going to do our jobs no matter how much executives want them to), but they seem to have already replaced executives, though sadly without the laying off part.
It's becoming more and more evident that these extremely harmful idiots (including CEOs and whatnot) have completely outsourced all their decision making and what little thinking they used to do onto LLMs.
We're being ruled by vegetables parroting hallucinating autocomplete engines.
- We're being ruled by vegetables parroting hallucinating autocomplete engines.
  That's been the case since MBAs in leadership positions have been a thing. They only swapped out the external business analyst consultants with LLMs.
- But the sales guy said that a programmer using their copilot technology will program at 10x speed. So I guess we can fire 10% to pay for it.
  
  Sales guy didn't say working, safe, secure, maintainable or at least of average quality code; just that it's faster. The thing to watch with sales peeps is all the things they don't say.
- Looks like they're replacing parts of the hiring process, too. Nearly every single job description and recruiter message looks AI-generated, my resume is at the mercy of some HR algorithm, and who knows what they're cooking up for actual interviews.
  But they still expect us to specially craft an individual resume and cover letter for each job we apply to? With all this corporate wordsmithing that only ever applies to writing those resumes? Fuck that. Hey ChatGPT, here's a job posting, match it up with my resume and generate a friendly cover letter. The whole process has become so formulaic with corporate-speak that whatever LLMs spit out are way better than anything we'd be able to come up with on our own.

He calls this his "best advice", definitely sounds like the kind of guy who's so brain dead he asks chat gpt how it would lead a large gaming conglomerate
- MIT did just do a stuudy and found people who use LLMs quite literally are dumber for it.
  So the outputs are worse, wrong, and you become dumber using it.
  What a productivity enhancer. Quick buy more stonks.
- It's scary what a large proportion of upper managers & CEOs use ChatGPT daily for business. It's so convenient when decisions are a, b, or c.

This is like a plot to a black mirror episode. "Feeling down, lost your job? Talk to your "Support AI"! Only $999.99 a month! Now comes in the form of a virtual dog" .
This is pinnacle incompetent management where the mindset is "We spent of bunch of money on this useless piece of crap and we're going to make it work dammit!" They've hit the iceburg and just full steam ahead into it in the hopes the iceberg will sink before the ship does. Never use any LinkedIn managers for any advice.

Absolutely reckless suggestion to have newly emotionally vulnerable people seek help from an LLM. And it's even worse that they're probably emotionally vulnerable because of the actions of your company

I dunno, I've got a little bit of mad respect for the evil genius who created linked in. I don't think anyone on this earth would believe, this level of unhinged, God syndrome, getting high on thier own farts, deranged mess, was possible to exist in someone's mind, let alone come out of their mind and be laid out for all the world to see. These people are so disconnected from humans or humanity. It's terrifying.

that's callous, disconnected and embarrassing.

this is the perfect image for the headline

Let them have chatGPT credits.

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