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Some People Are Definitely Losing Their Jobs Because of AI (the Ones Building it) | Google joins the latest AI layoffs.
Google joins the latest AI layoffs.
The layoffs appear to be a part of a shuffling of efforts within the company, which is moving away from “generalist” data annotators and ramping up its “specialists.” Given that Google just cut contractors who would likely fall under that “specialist” label, it probably feels a bit precarious out there. Shortly after Meta invested in data labeling firm Scale AI, the company cut 14% of its staff, including 200 full-timers and about 500 contractors. It’s also hard not to look at the layoffs of lower-level workers and contractors without thinking about the multi-million dollar job offers being thrown at AI specialists to secure their talents, but this tends to be how things go: the people doing the grunt work that must be done to keep the gears turning are considered replaceable while more and more money flows to the top to people who no one really knows what they do, but they make a lot of money so it must be important.
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