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>>maxuti+(OP)
Can't find the article right now, but there was one circulating that heavily implied that various SV execs began their rounds of layoffs last fall at least partially or probably inspired by the demos they'd seen of OpenAI's tech.

Microsoft in particular laid off 10,000 and then immediately turned around and invested billions more in OpenAI: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/microsoft-bets-bill... -- last fall, just as the timeline laid out in the Atlnatic article was firing up.

In that context this timeline is even more nauseating. Not only did OpenAI push ChatGPT at the expense of their own mission and their employee's well-being, they likely caused massive harm to our employment sector and the well-being of tens of thousands of software engineers in the industry at large.

Maybe those layoffs would have happened anyways, but the way this all has rolled out and the way it's played out in the press and in the board rooms of the BigTech corporations... OpenAI is literally accomplishing the opposite of its supposed mission. And now it's about to get worse.

>>cmrdpo+56
I read a profile recently of an AI consultant for CEOs who mentioned in the interview that the CEOs all want to know when they can lay people off.

I really don’t understand how tech people are so spectacularly naive.