This is because AI investments are not yielding significant results. Companies like Meta have laid off top-performing employees after spending heavily on AI initiatives.
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@OP got it half right. Meta laid off 600 AI engineers, but it's hiring product development folks to shift from research to marketing. The takeaway is that AI isn't improving as much as they claimed it would (just look at the less-than-amazing incremental improvement GPT5 was over GPT4) and will not be replacing most "needs human eyeballs" jobs. Yes, it will make them better at their jobs (if they're effective at using AI tools) but it will not completely replace them.
I spent the past two days using GPT to finish homework I was behind on, and come up with a meme-potential stock screener that I've been thinking about for a week or two.
While GPT is very impressive, it also makes really stupid mistakes. For example: it thought gravity applied upward force on an object in a problem I gave it. When I pointed out that gravity pulls down, it not only modified gravity to pull down, but then also inverted a separate force that shouldn't have been adjusted. I noticed the error immediately both times and wound up using the formulas it gave me to come up with the correct solution, but it highlights how AI still needs heavy human supervision.
And those were simple tasks.
I’ll be impressed by ai when it tells DF to fall off the wall and no one is there to put him back together again because all his employees hate him
Meta AI is trash lol.
AI is not being effectively utilized at WF.
If it were being better utilized, there would be significant labor cuts