It's a slight drop so far, but a bleak trend nonetheless.
  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    172·
    24 hours ago

    Find me the real world use cases of it replacing people for cheaper. You can’t, they don’t exist right now, it’s all cover for layoffs to happen while keeping stonk price high.

    • curiousaur@reddthat.comEnglish
      62·
      23 hours ago

      Receptionists and call centers. Really, I have first hand experience.

      The ai is infinitely patient, can handle infinite calls at once. The caller experience is often higher because they don’t have to wait on hold or get a call back, it’s getting better at solving harder problems.

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        This is probably a good thing as these tend to be shit jobs with high turnover. Dealing with angry people for hours on end isn’t great for anyone long term.

      • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        12·
        22 hours ago

        AI as customer service is shit. I wasted an entire day waiting for an electrician to show up while the clanker I was texting to kept reassuring me the techs were on the way. They were supposed to arrive at 4 and by the time I gave up on the company it was 10. It turned out it never even alerted the techs to show up at my property. Humans are way better even if you have to wait for them to call back, they can be held accountable at least.

      • HarneyToker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        22 hours ago

        I have yet to use AI to solve any actual problems faster than I could have solved them myself because I am constantly to having to go back and check every aspect of its work.

  • bitteroldcoot@piefed.socialEnglish
    47·
    2 days ago

    “This category was down by 0.2% from May of 2024 to May of 2025, a tiny drop, but one made more notable by employment in general trending up 0.8% in the same time period.”

    So it just dropped enough for the people deploying ai to realize it sucks and people are cheaper and better. Jeez media really likes to write the headline that keep the advertisers happy.

    • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      Actually most job growth has been in Healthcare, a field that is very resistant to AI right now. So if you remove that I think the trend is even less significant (and probably not anything that holds up to much scrutiny).

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          27 minutes ago

          Worker owned means the employees are the shareholders. Might not do layoffs but still plenty of reason to chase excessive profit in other ways.

          Co-ops might work. Consumers as the owners.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
    91·
    1 day ago

    Interesting to speculate how many of these are “Bullshit Jobs”, which arguably are the only ones AI is capable of replacing. While this may suck in the short term (especially for USians and others without a decent social security net), in the long run it may lead to more fulfilling work.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      24 minutes ago

      Two studies found that while Graeber claimed that an increasing number (from 20-60%) of all jobs are useless, less than 8% of European workers reported feeling that their job is useless, and those numbers are declining rather than growing. Additionally, European essential workers like garbage collectors or janitors more often felt like their jobs were useless than people in jobs classified by Graeber as useless. The studies concluded that Graeber’s theories are insufficient to explain why workers feel their jobs are not socially useful and that toxic work culture and bad management were better explanations for those feelings.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 days ago

    This category was down by 0.2% from May of 2024 to May of 2025, a tiny drop, but one made more notable by employment in general trending up 0.8% in the same time period.

    Correlation much?

    Comparing a trend in a category expected to be affected by AI, to general employment doesn’t mean the drop is because of the expected reason. Could be those businesses are suffering job losses for other, more mundane reasons.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 days ago

    Hopefully the AI bubble will slowly lose air instead of popping all at once and we won’t have a devastating crash.

    Maybe?

    • zqwzzle@lemmy.caEnglish
      34·
      2 days ago

      As a generation that has experienced several once in a lifetime events. Lol. Lmao even.

      • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        20·
        2 days ago
        1. Mass layoffs due to AI.
        2. Economy crashes due to AI bubble burst.
        3. Businesses collapse because AI can’t replace the people that got replaced, especially in the long term
        4. Economy sucks so there’s no money to hire the people who lost their jobs
        5. War and climate change get worse and affect the nouveaux poore more than ever before
        6. A huge volcanic eruption or meteor hit causes local deaths somewhere and worldwide catastrophe
        7. Half-Life 3 releases, but nobody has money or hardware to play it
        8. Aliens invade
        9. Economy goes wild with some stupid new tech.