Capitalize on backlash against subscriptions, RTO, and AI replacement.
This new thread further supports the previous findings and introduces some fresh nuances and emerging concerns, particularly around AI and employee treatment. Here's a breakdown of the new commercial and marketing opportunities:
1. AI Implementation Backlash & Demand for Ethical/Augmentative AI:
- Sentiment: There's a strong negative sentiment towards AI replacing humans, especially in junior or entry-level roles. People are worried about untested AI being used in critical customer-facing roles, like the Goldman Sachs example. There's also concern about AI being pushed without considering human learning or skill development.
- Opportunity:
- Ethical & Tested AI Deployment: Brands can stand out by emphasizing rigorous testing, ethical AI development, and transparency. Highlighting "human-in-the-loop" processes can help.
- AI for Augmentation, Not Just Replacement: Market AI tools as enablers that enhance human productivity and skills, rather than just cost-cutting mechanisms. Focus on how AI can free up humans for more complex, creative, or strategic work.
- Investing in Human Upskilling: Companies that visibly invest in training their workforce to use and manage AI tools effectively, rather than simply replacing them, will build goodwill and attract talent concerned about future-proofing their careers. This counters the fear of AI eliminating entry-level learning opportunities.
2. Deepening Subscription Fatigue & The Resurgence of Ownership:
- Sentiment: This is strongly reconfirmed. Users are actively moving away from monthly subscriptions and opting for one-time purchase alternatives like LibreOffice and Affinity Photo. Even hardware-tied subscriptions like Peloton are under fire.
- Opportunity:
- Perpetual Licenses as a Premium Offering: Actively market one-time purchase options as a key differentiator. This "anti-trend" stance resonates strongly with users.
- Clear Value Proposition for Subscriptions: If subscriptions are necessary, the value must be continuous and obvious, like new content for streaming, not just bug fixes for static software. Transparency in what the subscription pays for is key.
3. Intensified Return-to-Office (RTO) Resentment & Talent Drain:
- Sentiment: RTO remains a major pain point. It's seen as short-sighted, alienating high performers, and sometimes a disguised method for layoffs. Frustration with justifications like real estate costs when office spaces are inadequate.
- Opportunity:
- Aggressively Market Remote-First/Truly Flexible Policies: This is a significant tool for talent acquisition and retention. Emphasize trust, autonomy, and performance-based evaluation over physical presence.
- Services for Optimizing Vacant Office Space: For companies stuck with leases, services that help repurpose or sublet commercial real estate could be in demand.
4. The "Anti-Burnout" Employer Brand: Beyond RTO:
- Sentiment: Widespread frustration with constant layoffs, companies running as lean as possible leading to misery, underpaying top performers while piling on responsibilities, and a weird hiring process expecting perfection without investing in training.
- Opportunity:
- Sustainable Work Culture: Companies that promote work-life balance, fair compensation, reasonable workloads, and invest in employee well-being can build a powerful employer brand.
- Investment in Talent Development: Emphasize training programs, hiring for potential (especially for entry-level), and internal career progression. This counters the trend of expecting fully-formed employees and neglecting growth.
- Transparency and Stability: In an era of constant restructuring, companies offering a sense of stability and clear communication can attract talent seeking refuge from churn.
5. Navigating the AI & Copyright Minefield:
- Sentiment: An emerging concern that media companies with copyrights are making the same mistake with AI that the music industry made with digital. Fear that AI will devalue original creative work, coupled with the prediction that in 10 years, AI companies will dominate entire streaming services with purely AI-generated content.
- Opportunity:
- Ethical AI Content Generation Platforms: Services that use ethically sourced, licensed data for AI training and offer clear IP ownership/licensing for generated content.
- IP Protection Tools for Creators: Software and services to help artists, writers, and musicians protect their work from unauthorized AI training or infringement.
- Legal Tech Specializing in AI & IP: Legal services focused on navigating the complex and evolving landscape of AI and copyright law.
- Niche AI Content Platforms: While controversial, platforms specializing in purely AI-generated content (if they can navigate legal and ethical hurdles) represent a potential "next big thing" in media.
Origin Reddit Post
r/futurology
What company moves are you seeing today that seem self-destructive?
Posted by u/Mysterious-Exam8073•06/24/2025
It feels like every year there are a few big companies that start making moves people warn about. But it always seems like the leadership either doesn’t care or thinks they can ride it out, a
Top Comments
u/Curiousman1911
Meta feels like it's spreading itself too thin- chasing too many trends at once. Might catch up with them
u/DrMichaelHfuhruhurr
AI everything. Replacing humans, jr ranks, entry level things. It will blow up, at least in the short term. The peasants will revolt with their dollars.
We consumers have the most effect wi
u/crunchatizemythighs
My marketing director keeps pushing us to use AI and ChatGPT and its been so demoralizing. He compared the latter to "you know how when you are researching through a book and you just want th
u/damian20
Backing each president and swapping sides faster than Usain ⚡
u/netwitty
I am not in management so I am unsure. When our company got an overseas team they were a little useless for a good while until they became good enough.
Everyone I spoke to hated being tran
u/Mysterious-Exam8073
I didn’t realize people felt so strongly about that
u/Lexsteel11
The cocaine farming robots of the future will be majestic
u/beatsnstuffz
Return to office is short sighted and alienates high performers. Billy Five Star who is 700% to his goals every quarter will tell you to go fuck yourself and move to a competitor for probably
u/_perspicacious
REI leadership apparently decided to scale back on number of in-store associates. I was in the store on Memorial Day weekend during a major sale and there was only one tech in the bike shop.
u/JoyKil01
Return to Office followed by layoffs. Ditch the commercial real estate and perhaps you’ll have funding for workers!
u/Dz6810
I am willing to subscribe to cable TV because the information provided is different every day. I am not willing to subscribe to software because the service is the same, and the updates provi
u/FlavorD
But they can make it up with that stellar self-driving they've installed.
Unless not hitting kids is important to you. Then Tesla may not be for you.
u/OrdinaryTension
1. Finding out the CEO is a Nazi and doubling down on supporting him (or her, whatever pronouns they want).
2. Caving to the wanna-be dictator's whims & hoping to permanently gain favor.
u/haixin
Debt!!! They have effectively turned this into a debt reliant society. That was the first step. Next, AI. Final, unemployment.
u/Evening-Guarantee-84
Requiring 2-3 yrs experience for an entry level position.
You won't get anyone worth having if they have that experience and are stuck at entry level.
u/sambodia85
Microsoft in general. Windows and Office are absolutely dominate in Business, but every move of the last decade has made them worse. Less control, less choice, lower quality, more features th
u/Evening-Guarantee-84
This, so much this! If you invest just a little time some of the less than perfect people will give you a massive surprise.
u/HapticSloughton
Most people here are talking about things for the consumer, not business enterprise stuff.
I miss being able to buy a version of Photoshop and if it still met my needs, I didn't have to upgr
u/planko13
No longer use MS office or Adobe photoshop as a result. LibreOffice and Affinity photo instead.
u/instructive-diarrhea
Running as lean as possible thinking that is the key to success. I’m actively watching people get more and more miserable because companies don’t want to back fill. If they do it’s to pay 200
u/anfrind
Back in the 1980s, W. Edwards Deming identified [seven deadly diseases of management](https://deming.org/explore/seven-deadly-diseases/), which include a lack of purpose, a lack of understand
u/Interceptor
I'm not going to class myself as a top performer, but when I eventually left one job, they hired three separate people to take over the stuff I did. Man that company was terrible.
u/Evening-Guarantee-84
I've watched my company fly people in from out of state and do a full 8 hrs of interviews, pit them in a hotel overnight and fly them home... and not even make an offer! It's the most patheti
u/Mysterious-Exam8073
I didn’t realize people felt so strongly about that
u/Bobbler23
Never mind having to pay someone more, the cost to recruit is something like 20 - 30% before you even get into onboarding and any bespoke training to bring in someone new.
Just give them tha
u/Thesorus
Every company selling subscription based software or hardware.
There are probably too many to list.
u/Kapowpow
A company didn’t do that, a government did.
u/planko13
No longer use MS office or Adobe photoshop as a result. LibreOffice and Affinity photo instead.
u/gingertrees
Word peaked around 2002.
PowerPoint, probably a few yrs later.
Excel in 2019 (XLOOKUP).
Outlook... was never great to begin with, but the new one that doesn't use VBA is junk.
u/space_manatee
Maybe for you, but this is still how things work at most business software, snd it makes sense
u/richardsaganIII
Elon musk is a walking time bomb for his companies, crossing my fingers
u/quats555
I am ADHD and I know that tracking subscriptions is a nightmare for me. I use as few subscriptions as I can get away with because I know I struggle with them, and they are predatory even for
u/mervolio_griffin
They're confusing "gathering information" and "learning". In the long run the latter saves time and is invaluable in actually verifying the output of AI.
u/Jess_S13
Our company mandated RTO for everyone and you could only stay remote if you had exec approval. Funny how almost all senior engineers got approvals first day when teams started seeing who was
u/dzernumbrd
me: "Oh this software is cool, I might buy it"
me: <goes to website>
me: "Oh you have a subscription. Get absolutely fucked." <close window>
u/Whitesajer
Yeah. They cite property leases as the reason. Yet many companies demanding RTO don't even have enough seats for their staff. And with AI replacing all us peons.... Like empty offices and the
u/Projectguy111
What I find so ironic about the RTO wave is they didn’t seem to have an issue outsourcing where your colleagues were in a different building, in a different country, in a different time zone.
u/blueavole
Surprisingly Target isn’t here yet.
Spent decades following the money and increased market share of liberals and minorities.
In a few months abandoned their product partners , and fired
u/planko13
The free ones just aren’t great. Affinity photo is a one time charge and it is very good.
u/Evening-Guarantee-84
I think we work together.
I apologize in advance for leaving. How far in advance I can't say, but I am absolutely job hunting to save myself.
u/FlavorD
I was told yesterday that JPL (NASA affiliate) is going to demand RTO, \*so that\* some people will quit or retire, and they won't have to do layoffs. I don't get that. A guy I know with a Ma
u/Sniflix
So many companies are firing double digits percentage of their employees to replace them with AI. Shit breaks all the time now. Customer service has all been fired, so you can't talk to anyon
u/km3r
Businesses SaaS is often far more complex, requiring both regular updates to accommodate evolving needs, and support for the software itself. Yeah they don't all need to be SaaS, but for a lo
u/Adapid
Feel this in my bones. Good luck with your job hunt.
u/knightofterror
We’ll also have consumer robots who will mine bitcoin and use it to purchase all surplus crap that isn’t selling and store it in our garages and basements.
u/Fit-Rip-4550
ESG, AI, ignoring physics of energy, ignoring primary customer base for niche markets, ignoring domestic market or worse trying to force domestic market to adopt international variant domesti
u/Rusty51
Sure but the jobs moved there because it was cheaper to operate from those countries, but when automation reduces the cost of production to nothing, those jobs will also be gone.
u/Evening-Guarantee-84
This, so much this! If you invest just a little time some of the less than perfect people will give you a massive surprise.
u/Juicy-Lemon
REI stopped hiring people with outdoor experience, and doesn’t train new hires on products, so the expertise members always loved barely exists anymore.
Also, union busting.
u/planko13
Any software that comes with a monthly bill is dead to me. Will not even consider.
u/blueavole
Whole country. Liberals hated him when he started with trump, and they were Tesla’s main market.
Republicans now hate him because he threw twitter storm at trump and sold him out.
u/CO420Tech
This is a combination of "we're spending all this money on real estate that we leased for 15 years and it should be used" (which is silly because the building costs more when people are in it
u/saintjimmy43
I swear some companies think AI is just like a paper that you can hang over the hole where your workforce used to be. They see "it cuts staffing costs" and their minds go completely blank.
u/neutral-spectator
Photopea.com
u/Whaty0urname
I left my old job because of this. Last I saw on LinkedIn, so did about 6 other people in the last 6 months.
Corporate mandated 3 days in office, our president got them down to 2. Then they
u/FlavorD
No, what I want \*instead\* of just seeing someone on a Zoom call is a Lego type avatar that vaguely imitates them; dozens of these around a virtual table for a business meeting. They should
u/FlavorD
No, what I want \*instead\* of just seeing someone on a Zoom call is a Lego type avatar that vaguely imitates them; dozens of these around a virtual table for a business meeting. They should
u/Lexsteel11
The cocaine farming robots of the future will be majestic
u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms
They replaced their default landing page in M365 with fucking Copilot. You now have to go through a couple of layers of menu to get to the stuff you used to see right off the bat. And you ca
u/theperpetuity
Calling Canada the state of Canada as if it belongs to the USA. Setting absurd tariffs on Canada. This is the dumbest move by any business. I see towns empty along the Maine shoreline thanks
u/crushthewebdev
Chasing infinite growth. I feel like we're stuck in this constant stage of burnout because we have to reach some arbitrary growth percentage. But of course, I see little benefit or reward for
u/mikamitcha
Companies love getting a constant cashflow, but hate having constant expenses to support it lmao.
u/theperpetuity
Calling Canada the state of Canada as if it belongs to the USA. Setting absurd tariffs on Canada. This is the dumbest move by any business. I see towns empty along the Maine shoreline thanks
u/angel10004
What will the owners of the robots need money for? Their robots make all they want.
u/h3rpad3rp
Seems like every major corp has gone all in on screwing both their customers and employees in every possible way that they can.
It was always like that to some extent, but now it seems like
u/damian20
Backing each president and swapping sides faster than Usain ⚡
u/Lexsteel11
The word “beta” protects these companies like a Kevlar condom
u/Thesorus
Every company selling subscription based software or hardware.
There are probably too many to list.
u/GreyBeardEng
Moving everything to the cloud and replacing employees with AI.
I've been in IT for over 30 years and every company that I've interacted with that has moved everything to the cloud, is no
u/Lexsteel11
The word “beta” protects these companies like a Kevlar condom
u/sxhnunkpunktuation
Goodbye Creative Cloud.
u/haixin
Debt!!! They have effectively turned this into a debt reliant society. That was the first step. Next, AI. Final, unemployment.
u/Narrow-Strawberry553
Watching the Canadian Government mandate RTO is so sad.
The Canadian Government is running on budget cuts, and they've cut 10'000 positions to save money- mostly agents from the Canada Reven
u/planko13
Agree here. TV and streaming services are constantly providing new content. I want to buy software that does a thing, and be done with that transaction.
u/Dz6810
I am willing to subscribe to cable TV because the information provided is different every day. I am not willing to subscribe to software because the service is the same, and the updates provi
u/DrMichaelHfuhruhurr
AI everything. Replacing humans, jr ranks, entry level things. It will blow up, at least in the short term. The peasants will revolt with their dollars.
We consumers have the most effect wi
u/gingertrees
I know it's popular now, but i think a lot of people remember the 80s and 90s and early '00s when this wasn't the case for most things, and we all got along just fine.
"This way we can kee
u/Whitesajer
Yeah. They cite property leases as the reason. Yet many companies demanding RTO don't even have enough seats for their staff. And with AI replacing all us peons.... Like empty offices and the
u/crunchatizemythighs
My marketing director keeps pushing us to use AI and ChatGPT and its been so demoralizing. He compared the latter to "you know how when you are researching through a book and you just want th
u/Jaded_Carpet63
Private equity buying up solid companies, gutting them personnel-wise (for shareholder profit) and leadership complaining that sales aren’t high enough and cutting staff more.
u/SoylentRox
Even AI services like chatGPT/Gemini?
u/Swirls109
The weird hiring process of holding out for THE perfect employee. Get some one that is good enough and start adding value. Nothing is perfect.
u/Cheapskate-DM
At some point we're going to see a backlash when people finally decide they need to tighten their belts, if it's isn't starting already.
u/saintjimmy43
I swear some companies think AI is just like a paper that you can hang over the hole where your workforce used to be. They see "it cuts staffing costs" and their minds go completely blank.
u/sambodia85
Microsoft in general. Windows and Office are absolutely dominate in Business, but every move of the last decade has made them worse. Less control, less choice, lower quality, more features th
u/Infinitehope42
Goldman Sachs is leaning heavily into AI for its intake department for their credit card when they were previously fined for making it hard to get disputes handled appropriately. Now they’re
u/WazWaz
(missing "not"?)
u/OriginalCompetitive
Car makers that are just selling dumb ICE cars. There’s no future there.
u/cheesemp
My company is trying to make it good to be in the office - pool table, good coffee machines, arcade machine, ps5, board games and food. Truth be told I still don't want to go in. Its an hours
u/netwitty
Going hybrid or RTO... It's a great way to piss off your high performers and get them looking somewhere else. Most companies know this and its just a risk they are willing to take.
Another
u/Swirls109
It also gets you faster time to market on their value add. Get someone in there and get them productive. I have been in interview processes that stretch out 4 months. WTF! Get someone in ther
u/watduhdamhell
Hahah. Oh lord.
What you haven't realized is the "vote with your wallet" thing is dead. Companies are not going to swap back because not nearly enough people can or will push back. In some c
u/Cheapskate-DM
At some point we're going to see a backlash when people finally decide they need to tighten their belts, if it's isn't starting already.
u/Whaty0urname
When I switched jobs a few months ago I went from *old* Outlook to *new* and my god is it dogshit.
Simple things like clicking a specific email in the chain and it glitching out and I can't
u/feedmeburritos
This forced growth is the root cause. Google was a hive mind of brilliant geeks that would goof off together and build fun things that were sometimes impactful. Then they switched their CFO i
u/brilliantminion
To add on, I want a basic photoshop and picture editing suite, but I don’t want to pay $20/month. Will likely cancel my adobe subscription in the next few months as I get up to speed on free
u/Fuzzylogic1977
Companies moving “all in” on AI and full automation. If all/most people are without work, because companies replaced them with robots and or AI, who will have the money to buy the “stuff” the
u/Swirls109
The weird hiring process of holding out for THE perfect employee. Get some one that is good enough and start adding value. Nothing is perfect.
u/BasvanS
More often than not, such a person has to be replaced by multiple people because of a mismatch in talent profile. Just because someone can perform multiple roles, doesn’t mean the next one ca
u/Kapowpow
A company didn’t do that, a government did.
u/Z3r0sama2017
The only 'merit' in capitialism is money. You have a lot? You are a supreme human, the cream of the crop. You have little? Just grease for the machine
u/Evening-Guarantee-84
Requiring 2-3 yrs experience for an entry level position.
You won't get anyone worth having if they have that experience and are stuck at entry level.
u/LV526
They sell themselves as already being an expert and that no training is needed. This is rarely the case and most overseas teams are worse than just looking up the answers online yourself.
u/blueavole
Surprisingly Target isn’t here yet.
Spent decades following the money and increased market share of liberals and minorities.
In a few months abandoned their product partners , and fired
u/tossaway390
Layoffs, layoffs, layoffs. Companies can make their cashflow look good by just getting go of a few hundred people here, several thousand people there. Companies have gotten drunk on layoffs s
u/InfraEng
Companies need to treat the workforce like adults and then they’ll get adults to work for them, I can’t believe it’s a thing that has to be said.
And some companies need to be receptive to t
u/DeltaV-Mzero
Even if we don’t, when nobody is working because the jobs have been automated… who is buying the crap the robots make? With what money?
u/JoyKil01
Return to Office followed by layoffs. Ditch the commercial real estate and perhaps you’ll have funding for workers!
u/Demonshaker
Tesla. It is unwise the make half the country hate you.
u/No-Engine-5406
90% of car companies. People want affordable vehicles and will overlook gimmicky technology that will be outdated in a few years. At least in the US, if emission regulations were overturned,
u/blueavole
After decades of cutting training programs, even the perfect employee is gonna be crap if you can’t teach them to do the job you want.
u/jqflem
I am in the same boat. entire content calendars are being created with AI. ChatGPT is our creative director 🤦♂️
u/lew_rong
You know, its funny, growing up that exact pay structure was always a joke about communism treating everybody equally regardless of merit. And now I'm grown up here in the real world, and cap
u/neuro-grey7
You can still buy one-time purchase permanent licenses of Office
u/DeltaV-Mzero
The jobs didn’t move to people. They moved to machines.
Zoom way out, that means an enormous engine for circulating wealth from the owning class to (anyone else) was shut off.
For the vast
u/plinkoplonka
The people where the jobs moved to.
Don't fool yourself, there's are plenty of lucrative markets outside of the USA and their populations are enormous compared to the USA.
u/instructive-diarrhea
Running as lean as possible thinking that is the key to success. I’m actively watching people get more and more miserable because companies don’t want to back fill. If they do it’s to pay 200
u/thebiglebowskiisfine
Peloton is a good example. Tonal and many others are toast.
u/DeltaV-Mzero
Well, there is one thing after unemployment
u/Mysterious-Exam8073
This could be a good topic to look into!
u/Mysterious-Exam8073
I feel like I just woke up lmao I guess I hadn’t even noticed how unnecessary most of those prices are
u/Evening-Guarantee-84
I think we work together.
I apologize in advance for leaving. How far in advance I can't say, but I am absolutely job hunting to save myself.
u/Whaty0urname
I left my old job because of this. Last I saw on LinkedIn, so did about 6 other people in the last 6 months.
Corporate mandated 3 days in office, our president got them down to 2. Then they
u/Upbeat-Sandwich3891
Private Equity is a virus that has spread across the business landscape. It’s like one of those house flipping shows but it’s companies, humans, and product quality that’s being tossed out th
u/planko13
Any software that comes with a monthly bill is dead to me. Will not even consider.
u/SoylentRox
Unfortunately you're wrong here, companies do this because it works. See Rockstar making many many times their investment into GTA 5 selling shark cards, or Epic selling fornite stuff.
u/planko13
The free ones just aren’t great. Affinity photo is a one time charge and it is very good.
u/DocBoldLettuce
One of the big dumb issues with ai. Is the broligarchy in general has normalized publishing untested software on users to get users do the testing.
That will carry over into ai. Ie. Someone
u/SoylentRox
Unfortunately you're wrong here, companies do this because it works. See Rockstar making many many times their investment into GTA 5 selling shark cards, or Epic selling fornite stuff.
u/starke_reaver
All Hail the Snow Machines!!!
u/YellowZx5
It’s not even Artificial Intelligence though. It’s basically Google or search. Machine learning is what it should be called but AI sells the product.
u/catching45
Also having a "one size fits all" payment structure. Like, everyone with X position gets paid Y. Pair that with vague bonus metrics and you're giving your best employees no reason to work har
u/Curiousman1911
Meta feels like it's spreading itself too thin- chasing too many trends at once. Might catch up with them
u/netwitty
Going hybrid or RTO... It's a great way to piss off your high performers and get them looking somewhere else. Most companies know this and its just a risk they are willing to take.
Another
u/knightofterror
We’ll also have consumer robots who will mine bitcoin and use it to purchase all surplus crap that isn’t selling and store it in our garages and basements.
u/OrdinaryTension
1. Finding out the CEO is a Nazi and doubling down on supporting him (or her, whatever pronouns they want).
2. Caving to the wanna-be dictator's whims & hoping to permanently gain favor.
u/nomis_ttam
Companies striving for infinite growth or chasing record profits year over year. None of it is sustainable. Good business should always include longevity
u/DocBoldLettuce
One of the big dumb issues with ai. Is the broligarchy in general has normalized publishing untested software on users to get users do the testing.
That will carry over into ai. Ie. Someone
u/beatsnstuffz
Return to office is short sighted and alienates high performers. Billy Five Star who is 700% to his goals every quarter will tell you to go fuck yourself and move to a competitor for probably
u/Musketeer00
It's funny you say 3 is tin hat when that is exactly why they are doing it. If the Commercial property market crashes it'll take the rest of the economy with it, or at least enough of the eco
u/StolenFriend
I tell you one in healthcare that took off like crazy, incentive shifts. Paying nearly double to fill in short shifts effectively created a market for shifts where certain staff would only wo
u/tossaway390
Layoffs, layoffs, layoffs. Companies can make their cashflow look good by just getting go of a few hundred people here, several thousand people there. Companies have gotten drunk on layoffs s
u/crushthewebdev
Chasing infinite growth. I feel like we're stuck in this constant stage of burnout because we have to reach some arbitrary growth percentage. But of course, I see little benefit or reward for
u/CO420Tech
The smart people are investigating, testing and using some of the AI tools to help their people be more efficient, etc.. That will eventually lead to job loss as fewer people will be able to
u/FlavorD
I was told yesterday that JPL (NASA affiliate) is going to demand RTO, \*so that\* some people will quit or retire, and they won't have to do layoffs. I don't get that. A guy I know with a Ma
u/Serenity-Now-237
I’m sure Disney is just quaking over the eight second clip Veo3 can pirate of an awful looking Mickey Mouse. They’ll sue the hell out of any AI company who infringes on their copyright (adios
u/Mysterious-Exam8073
I feel like I just woke up lmao I guess I hadn’t even noticed how unnecessary most of those prices are
u/mervolio_griffin
They're confusing "gathering information" and "learning". In the long run the latter saves time and is invaluable in actually verifying the output of AI.
u/Orennji
> Usually the overseas team is untrained and does not perform as well.
Why can't they be trained?
u/8to24
AI is improving at lightning speed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/s/xD2LVZlJah
In 10yrs AI companies will dominate.there will be entire streaming services of purely AI series and mov
u/planko13
Agree here. TV and streaming services are constantly providing new content. I want to buy software that does a thing, and be done with that transaction.
u/Persist_in_folly
I'm convinced that most RTOs at this point fall into 3 categories.
1. Layoff in disguise with the gamble of a down market. Sure, you'll lose some good talent, but execs think most people ar
u/hikingmike
I use Gimp. I’m not going to pay for Photoshop, but I occasionally still want to do some image editing and it works well.
I also use Paint.net for more basic image editing tasks.
u/blueavole
Whole country. Liberals hated him when he started with trump, and they were Tesla’s main market.
Republicans now hate him because he threw twitter storm at trump and sold him out.
u/CO420Tech
This is a combination of "we're spending all this money on real estate that we leased for 15 years and it should be used" (which is silly because the building costs more when people are in it
u/suluf
and how much it was before subscription? They were not free
u/iamnotdownwithopp
Underpaying top performers and piling responsibilities on them. Then, when they burn out and quit, hiring someone else at more pay who doesn't perform like the former employee. Those extra re
u/Demonshaker
Tesla. It is unwise the make half the country hate you.
u/TheLastSamurai
here is a crazy thought. could a niche lifestyle brand differentiate by saying “no AI was used in the making of this product” sort of like how people say no animal products
u/angel10004
What will the owners of the robots need money for? Their robots make all they want.
u/Mysterious-Exam8073
Who is doing that?
u/CO420Tech
The smart people are investigating, testing and using some of the AI tools to help their people be more efficient, etc.. That will eventually lead to job loss as fewer people will be able to
u/wheres_my_ballot
The industrial revolution in Britain put textile workers in India out of work. They couldn't compete with a flood of machine produced textiles on the global market, and this was over a centur
u/iamnotdownwithopp
Underpaying top performers and piling responsibilities on them. Then, when they burn out and quit, hiring someone else at more pay who doesn't perform like the former employee. Those extra re
u/8to24
Media companies with copyrights over valuable content like Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, etc. These copies are making the exact same mistake with AI that the Music industry made with digita
u/blueavole
After decades of cutting training programs, even the perfect employee is gonna be crap if you can teach them to do the job you want.
u/Mysterious-Exam8073
This could be a good topic to look into!
u/Upper_Road_3906
already cut out three companies outsourcing to ai and outsourcing to other countries last time i cancelled a service the call dpt tried to scam me they hung up and redialled on a private line
u/TheBman26
“Here is all these distractions please come in an work so I know you are working….” lol
u/JackBandit4
Understaffing and terrible onboarding/training for the new hires they do get. Pushing out tenure so the training is truly is dirt.
u/DeltaV-Mzero
Even if we don’t, when nobody is working because the jobs have been automated… who is buying the crap the robots make? With what money?
u/thriftwisepoundshy
It may be working but it’s still bad in the long run
u/generalyou123
I see that a lot already on YouTube. They'll post a disclaimer at the beginning of the video that no AI was used.
u/sxhnunkpunktuation
Goodbye Creative Cloud.
u/brilliantminion
To add on, I want a basic photoshop and picture editing suite, but I don’t want to pay $20/month. Will likely cancel my adobe subscription in the next few months as I get up to speed on free