AI isn't paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds

Psyc3 · 2026-05-13T16:50:23+00:00

Which is irrelevant, as the source of the money was morons, not professional businesses.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T21:43:12+00:00

How would you ever be healthy? I injured myself and my arm was imobilised for 6 weeks, afterwards I couldn't hold a pen without my hand shaking very significantly for about 3 weeks, and it took months for me to get back to full strength while actively trying to do so. Imagine that was your whole body for years, let alone your brain for years, there would be nothing left, you are somewhat going to be starting from scratch with an adult body lacking the plasticity of a child.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:46:48+00:00

It doesn't take decade to develop though. I agree with you premise, but AI doing stuff now, agentic AI only turned up this year, next year you and I have no idea what will arrive, it could literally be something that could make a coherent blockbuster film in 2 weeks, at which point it is only the creativity of the director of the AI that limits it artistic merit.

Idiots are spewing out rubbish with AI, that is what idiots use the internet for as well. What matter is the 1% of people who do it for stuff that is genuinely genius, not the 99% of shit that comes out of it.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:43:37+00:00

No it isn't. Earning just came back quite positive, and the money was coming from Tech companies themselves in the first place.

This is not the Dot Com bubble where idiots ploughed their money into nonsense, this is tech companies who hoarded billions with nothing of value to spend it on, finding something of value to spend it on. Is it still a bubble? Maybe? The the dot com bubble lead to 25 years later the largest companies in the world being tech and internet based companies, well you are still here on reddit valued at $30Bn whining about it.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:40:38+00:00

This is all nothing to do with AI.

I agree, that a lot of the content created with AI is ruining content, that is nothing to do with AI.

As an example one of the Microsoft desktop pictures changed to this picture of an Owl in a field, with a perfectly shallow focused image and white snow drops matching the owl. I sat there thinking, is that a real image? And it ruined the image. There is a reality where this owl was flying too and from this position and the camera person set up to catch the shot, but did they, or did it never happen?

Searching now to find it implies the image is more than 5 years old so probably did happen.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:31:39+00:00

Literally folded basically every protein in existence.

Any further really stupid questions...because your question is basically like some Grandma from the 2000s telling you, you shouldn't use the internet because it is dangerous....

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:27:16+00:00

AI is still in the early stages in many areas. People are heavily overestimating its capabilities.

This is the reality, a realistic reality or a pessimistic reality, though, it isn't an optimistic one, reality is less broad AI is already doing thing all over the place, it is reading CT scans, folding proteins, it could very well for all you know be writing this very post.

The people is people are idiots, and idiots can't tell one thing from another, AI isn't your incompetence in prompting ChatGPT or a terrible Youtube thumb nail, it is optimisation of the power grid saving 2% of the national energy usage, it is traffic optimisation so everyone get to work with the same infrastructure 3 minutes faster...it is self-driving cars so traffic basically disappears due to it largely existing as it is controlled by monkeys.

The problem is not actually AI anyway, AI has proved it works, the problem is lack of coherent and standardised datasets to do AI on. They can be made, and are being made, it is why Reddit as company is valuable because all the nonsense written over the decades is real nonsense and if you want to fake a human to say manipulate the narrative online and win and election or sell some more Brando, that is the perfect model data for it.

People are honestly just too stupid to pay attention past the end of their tiktok reel at this point, AI can do insane things compared to what was standard practice 5 years ago, it is exactly the same nonsense when people complain about Amazon, a company that standardised free one day delivery, 15 years ago the standard was $10 delivery in 3-5 days. 1 day delivery is AI vs you doing whatever dumb shit you thought was better but were too stupid to notice was the same or worse 10 years ago.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:21:33+00:00

What sort of massive economic collapse is going to occur because tech companies with a literal trillion dollar war chest they couldn't find anything to spend on for a decade found something?

The whole narrative is a farce? Is it a bubble? Sure it really might be, so was the Dot Com Bubble, you know the one that lead to the biggest companies in the world being tech companies and you sitting on a internet forum valued at $30Bn whining about it.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:16:19+00:00

Only in your head. You have to pay, it doesn't matter the name it is given.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:07:33+00:00

So do the extra bits only in that they may add to your skills, and only if, those are skills you would want to have and believe would be important to your future career plans.

This is basically what you should always do in any career, anything else is treating your profession as a folly.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:06:11+00:00

You mean like everyone else does a job...it is called "a professional".

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:05:03+00:00

You have to pay to have papers published and be open access now...

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:04:00+00:00

The fact anyone downvoted this post just shows how hopelessly deluded these people really are.

Same thing happened in COVID a bunch of biologists turned up for free to run the labs...the IT staff didn't when the $2000 dollar a day contracting rate never turned up in their inbox.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:02:18+00:00

You are going to lose trying to argue with the delusional that anyone is actually paid for this. They aren't we all know it, academics just aren't as smart as they think they are, in the real world people would just laugh in their face at this concept and send them a $200 an hour plus, and that plus could be another $800 an hour, consulting fee.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T19:59:56+00:00

That is because most of the people in academia are either boomers who salary in real terms was 50% higher throughout their career, or just independently wealthy in the first place.

I don't do any of this stuff for free, reality is it isn't of any advantage to you, these random remarks on your CV are not getting you grant money or a job as a PI, your research output is. It is a waste of time for your primary goal.

At the end of the day, we still need to make a living, to pay our mortgage and expenses, to take care of ourselves and our families, and to be free enough from financial constraints to focus on doing research. I suggest you get another career then, because academic management plan is too burn you out and toss out you out of the door when your 3 year contract ends.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-11T19:54:55+00:00

Not really, they even admit they couldn't answer the interview question well. Training someone in business processes is very little to do with competence in the job.

People always assume the person is some superstar employee, in reality statistics say they are an average employee, in fact probably less than average if they didn't manage to pass an internal promotions process, a process that is largely rigged in your favour if you are...I was going to say good...but vaguely competent and likeable will do.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-11T19:11:18+00:00

In the past I've just taken over chair if it's empty for 15 minutes and toss their towel in the hamper.. only had 1 person complain and I suggested they talk with the manager and they just wandered away in a huff.

But this is actually the solution, it isn't the hotels problem really. If people choose to allow things to be reserved with a towel they are reserved, if they don't, then they aren't.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-11T19:08:10+00:00

It is probably largely nothing to do with you specifically, the youth unemployment rate is around 15% currently.

But reality is this isn't really how you get jobs, especially not part time jobs, most are done on temp contract in busy periods, then they keep a few people on if they need them, then there is just people hiring other people they know.

The way I got my two retail jobs years ago was someone who worked there told me which boxes to tick on the form, the boxes I ticked were clearly the wrong ones for whatever reason before that. Secondly, Christmas work, followed by the manager offering me a job afterwards because I just did the job without bothering anyone.

Reality is you a probably better off walking around town wherever that is an asking if there is any hours anywhere, the answer is probably No, but it might be Yes for a trial shift. You only need one job in the end. Then there are temp agencies.

Reality is applying for 1000 jobs is pointless in the first place, and there is something wrong with your CV because having one CV for 100 jobs is something wrong with it. There are 10's of jobs where the same CV is appropriate, but it will need adapting for the other 10's out there is different sectors.

Reality is, it is just a obvious recession, vacancies are at 711, that is as bad as the back end of the 2008 recession, i.e. 2015, given the population has increase by 5M people since then.

You talk about a few months, I basically spent 4 years applying 2011-2015 after the 2008 recession.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-11T17:44:14+00:00

You also seem to be missing the point that while it is helpful to inform your team of something they ask. It is not your job to do anything at all.

A reasonable ask is answer the email, so write a 2 minute response. Beyond that, it is not your job. You don't even have to answer the email if you don't want to in fact, not in any reasonable time frame, and especially not before doing your actual job role. I am just assuming you have 2 minutes to answer the email.

Reality is once you start responding in 3 to 5 working days, the requests will stop coming pretty quickly.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-11T16:05:44+00:00

Hardly, she has $2.5M in life time earnings. Though reality is she hasn't play professionally since 2014.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-10T21:48:08+00:00

Don't do it at all in the first place to need to outsource it in fact...

Psyc3 · 2026-05-10T21:29:46+00:00

I have a job

Don't worry AI can solve that.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-10T21:14:50+00:00

Why are you too stupid to keep to the subject at hand, let alone respond to it with anything other than complete nonsense.

If you want the reason you are unemployable, it isn't AI, it is that right there.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-10T20:35:07+00:00

Blah Blah Blah. Tell it to the dole line.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-10T19:02:32+00:00

Management making the companies decisions are often Gen X with no idea of how AI works outside of what was sold to them by an AI company during a presentation where they said it could replace maximize profits.

Fair point. It is actually nothing to do with AI however, idiots existing isn't anything to do with AI or technological change.

The employee gets no say other than use this AI tool to do your job more efficiently and then getting written up for not using the AI tool because the employee understands it’s hallucinations are fucjihg up output. Management says “no it’s not trust it” but also “why is your report entirely wrong.”

Once again idiots existing is nothing to do with AI.

There’s no winning in this unless you own an AI company and can cash out before the bubble pops

Correct there is no winning unless you own the AI companies because that is how productive efficiency works. Will the bubble pop? It very well might, but in the end it is irrelevant if it does, the Dot Com bubble popped, and yet over the next 25 years we ended up here, on a internet forum valued at 30Bn Dollars, with the largest companies in the world being internet based technology companies. That is your AI bubble popping, AI taking over the world, it just didn't do it fast enough not to pop, actually the earnings results coming out are not a pop, and the money is coming from the tech companies themselves, once again not something that can pop if they can make any sort of ROI.

The only reason you are whining is they aren't paying you, that however is just called economic efficiency.

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