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AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I hope that every company that spends money on AI employees spends a lot of money on AI employees and then subsequently loses their shirts when they realize they're practically entirely useless on a business level And then they go bankrupt and the company selling them goes bankrupt because they can't sell garbage

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Depends on the industry. If you're in an industry where your bottom line is sufficiently insulated from the quality of your goods or services, then you'll be fine! Just gotta be an illegal monopoly, or form illegal trusts to gain equivalent monopoly power, or benefit from regulatory capture.

Like, say, health insurance. What could go wrong?!

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago

So what does Artisan actually do? Its main product is an AI "sales agent" called Ava that supposedly automates the work of finding and messaging potential customers. The company claims it works with "no human input" and costs 96% less than hiring a human for the same role.

This company is selling telemarketer stalker bots. I think it will probably do fine.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

Or an isp, we'll soon be longing for the days when we got to talk to an at&t customer service rep.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. This is pretty likely, at this stage.

General purpose AI may be coming, but it's not here, now.

Sadly, a bunch of them will just recover by convincing idiots to give them venture capital.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Time for some of us to become neo-luddites. Start breaking some machines, because it's not practical to stage large scale strikes when the shops are so distributed.