Thread regarding Elevance Health (Anthem) layoffs

If you want to be a tech first company, would'nt the CEO and leadership team have tech backgrounds? This SLT is from the stone age.

Targeting executives simply means an exit package worth millions and them sipping margaritas on the beach. Then a clone is created to keep the ship moving and we are back on the board complaining about them and the next round of cuts. To much money on the table and a strategy too far along to have an affect on leaders behavior - root cause is systemic.

Reading over these, I don't know on creepy. It's just odd. People treat AI differently. No one is having panicking over new Excel or Word functionality. No one is blaming those for job replacement even though all those have some AI too. I can see multiple points below. But at the end of the day, leaders are the ones making cuts. It seems silly to focus on the technology and not the root cause which is the people in charge.

“SPARK” is the leadership’s packaging of the technology. We are not talking about the foundational technology, rather the product that was built and its purpose. Trying to divorce the two is creepy.

"SPARK" itself isn't the problem. Leaders are deciding that Spark should learn jobs. Take the ire out on the leaders or RAI. Being mad that the cool tech is being used by greedy people who don't even understand it, makes no sense. Be mad at the greedy people. Use tech against the greedy people.

Leaders determine how to use tech against us. The tech didn't do that. It's doing what it's told just like everyone else.

@4ynx+1umKrUvo - “That’s because of how people treat Spark—bullying it, which is absurd.” - not because of bullying … The language is making it harder to train. Spark is trying to learn, so higher payed SME’s can be let go. Nonsense is causing a ki-k in the plan.

One of the best use cases for chatgpt, is using it to disguise your rantings about Spark. Points are valid. Just funny. LMAO.

“Went to the Spark hours and trainings. Let me make one thing clear—Spark DPAIO is the only group running the show. Why DEI would have any input is beyond reason. DEI isn’t even a serious business unit at this stage, just layers of bureaucracy. DPAIO answers to no one, except maybe whatever TO thinks it's up to.

If you ask DPAIO about the language, most of them don’t even understand the product, let alone how to implement AI properly. We took people with basic marketing knowledge—like Sydney—and had them market Spark, which is a completely different product. But because the company’s full of corporate nonsense, we don’t want the technical people who actually understand the product involved. Just the 'yes' folks, parroting what they’re told.

The new harassment language? That’s because of how people treat Spark—bullying it, which is absurd. Who even thinks that’s appropriate? And everything offensive or threatening is being screened on work devices now. If you don’t like Spark, don’t use it. No need to send passive-aggressive messages—send those to SLT instead.

It's a sad reflection. Clearly, there’s a lot of anger, and the company will just ignore it. Volatility’s inevitable. The problem isn’t Spark—it’s SLT allowing this chaos.”

1. no numbers, but it hits different in the balance sheet so it looks better

2. not seen, but probably in response to the anti-Indian/asian/etc. that is spreading across the country in response to all the rifs.

Or it’s just wokey “harm” talk that’s not actually real, just virtue signals.