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hotaru251 society is going to really be testing the future of when theres no jobs yet people need money. (a known thing for a long time now) There arent enough jobs for people who need em and once that hits a certain point either Gov is required to give money to people freely or the people end up doing bad deeds as they have no other choice to survive. Reply
Findecanor Wait … Cloudflare is AI-downsizing their own workforce at the same time as they are supposedly protecting client web sites from being visited by AI scrapers. And here I had been hoping that Cloudflare was one of the good guys because of the latter. Tonight, I had been searching the web for a hosting site to use: one with countermeasures against AI-scrapers. I had been especially looking for sites behind Cloudflare. I think I should instead develop and deploy my own countermeasures then. Reply
chaos215bar2 Findecanor said: I think I should instead develop and deploy my own countermeasures then. 😂 Reply
Arkitekt78 That should be the new standard. When you cut some percentage of jobs for something like AI, your stock must drop by at least the same percentage. Reply
ThatMouse I'd like to hear what exact job function they replaced and with what type of AI. Probably level one customer support with chat bots. Or they are lying. Reply
JeffreyP55 ThatMouse said: I'd like to hear what exact job function they replaced and with what type of AI. Probably level one customer support with chat bots. Or they are lying. The company said AI-driven internal systems are now capable of handling substantial portions of workflows previously requiring larger human teams, particularly in operational efficiency, software deployment, and support functions. Reply
Jame5 Honestly to me that explains the drop in stock price. When something is mission critical, maybe don't remove the human oversight? I know that's not the reason here, but it feels like it should be. Everyone is all for AI doing everything, until it risks screwing up things they rely on (I.e. the availability of things shielded and hosted by cloudflare.) Reply
Why_Me hotaru251 said: society is going to really be testing the future of when theres no jobs yet people need money. (a known thing for a long time now) There arent enough jobs for people who need em and once that hits a certain point either Gov is required to give money to people freely or the people end up doing bad deeds as they have no other choice to survive. There's plenty of well paying jobs available in the oil/gas and construction industries here in the US. Of course that means manual labor which a lot of people these days bemoan. Reply
hotaru251 Why_Me said: There's plenty of well paying jobs available in the oil/gas and construction industries here in the US. Of course that means manual labor which a lot of people these days bemoan. not enough for every person who wants/needs a job. Pushing automation in majority of fields means an already problematic outcome is going to get worse and that leads to a messy time when it happens. Reply
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