• Jestzer@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    To please the shareholders. Then, when AI is no longer deemed valuable and its tremendous costs sink in, they will remove it and layoff the teams that worked on it, to please the shareholders.

    • leisesprecher@feddit.org
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      9 hours ago

      That’s way too simplistic, as often.

      For the shareholders, having an investment of several billions turn into an unwanted add-on for a few dollars is not a good thing. It’s the opposite, almost like a fire sale.