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AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees
www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-903442
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.comAI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees | The Jerusalem PostOracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
Ellison: job creator destroyer.
Replying to @green_goglin@thelemmy.club
People shouldn’t be working for super villains.
People stand around wondering why the fuck these companies are able to do what they do and these billionaires the same. WELL BECAUSE YOU WORK FOR THEM CHAD. IT’S LITERALLY YOUR FAULT!
Replying to @architect@thelemmy.club
In a shitty job market, a job for the supervillain is better than starving and being homeless.
This rhetoric comes from a place of privilege.
Replying to @KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
It’s not shitty enough to completely leave your ethics at the door. You might need to take a little less pay, or work on something less interesting (although we’re talking about Oracle here).
Somebody who landed a job at Oracle had options. That is until today. Now they have 21,000 other people to compete with.
It’s the people somewhere like Nvidia I have some empathy for. They thought they were building gaming tech and they’ve ended up building the apocalypse.
Replying to @wewbull@feddit.uk
Lol, I will admit, Oracle is like working for Palintir, you know what you’re signing up for.