David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) M to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoMicrosoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’tpivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up137file-text
arrow-up137external-linkMicrosoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’tpivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) M to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square19linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMonkderVierte ( MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoThat’s fine, they had a “make money by stepping over morals” philosophy from the very start.
minus-squarediz ( diz@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThat philosophy always ends in stepping into dogshit to try to boost stock prices.
minus-squareMonkderVierte ( MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYeah, it’s not sustainable long-term, but they’re not in for it long-term anyway.
minus-squarediz ( diz@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI’m kind of dubious its effective in any term whatsoever, unless the term is “nothing works but we got a lot of it”.
That’s fine, they had a “make money by stepping over morals” philosophy from the very start.
That philosophy always ends in stepping into dogshit to try to boost stock prices.
Yeah, it’s not sustainable long-term, but they’re not in for it long-term anyway.
I’m kind of dubious its effective in any term whatsoever, unless the term is “nothing works but we got a lot of it”.