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[-] arrakark@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 month ago

LOL. If you have to buy your customers to get them to use your product, maybe you aren't offering a good product to begin with.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

That stood out to me too. This is effectively the investor class coercing use of AI, rather than how tech has worked in the past, driven by ground-up adoption.

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's not what this is. They find profitable businesses and replace employees with Ai and pocket the spread. They aren't selling the Ai

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

They're rent seeking douchbags who don't add value to shit. If there was ever an advertisement for full on vodka and cigarettes for breakfast bolshevism it's these assholes.

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[-] Manticore@lemmy.nz 66 points 1 month ago

Isn't the MO for venture capitalists to run businesses into the ground, make them owe debt to themselves, cannibalise businesses from the inside and then run away with a profit while they bankrupt?

Not surprising to make a decision that kills a business because the entire point is to kill the golden goose

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

PE firms do that, VC wants a return of thier investment.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

VCs are value extractors too, they just use a different methodology from the PE pigs.

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[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

Why is that even legal? It doesnt benefit society in anyway, just hurts it by removing work places. I dont know how it works finically but at least it sounds like it could also be used to evade taxes with that debt bullshit. Is this using some loophole in existing law or is it something that doesnt have anything restricting it?

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[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

bunch of greedy fucks.

greed should be a registered mental illness that's no different than OCD, schizophrenia, or PTSD.

1000001574

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

I've never seen anything good come from companies with the words "equity" or "capital" in their names.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

If you thought your service was bad now, it’s gonna get worse.

[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Isn't that what we call "Innovation" in our capitalist society?

You build a thing. Pour your blood sweat and tears into it. Some VC goon buys it during a downturn. They fire most of the staff. Strip the copper out of the walls. Make the service shittier and shittier until all that is left is its faltering brand recognition then sell it all for a bundle to the very next sucker they can?

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[-] underline960@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago

Every interaction costs them money, right?

Sounds like we need to put all the AI call centers on a conference call with each other.

[-] vane@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago
[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 8 points 1 month ago

The movie Outsourced (2006) didn't foretell AI, but it did a pretty good job foretelling how the offshoring trend was going to unfold.

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[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 21 points 1 month ago

Can all you money-grubbing psychopaths just fuck off and stop ruining everything please?

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[-] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago
[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

How easy will it be to fool the AI into getting the company in legal trouble? Oh well.

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[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

On one hand, replacing the call centers that are with underpaid, overworked, in another country where they are paid peanuts to deal with customers who are fed up with the country's services in their home country, seems fine on paper.

I can't begin to tell you how many times I've called a company, got sent to people who were required to read the same scripts, where I had to say the same lines, including "If I am upset, it's not at you, I know it's not your fault, you just work for them" and then got nowhere, or no real answer. Looking at you, T-Mobile Home Internet and AT&T.

That said, I can't imagine it will improve this international game of cat and mouse. I already have to spam 0 and # and go "FUCK. HUMAN. OPERATOR. HELP." in an attempt to get a human in an automated phone tree. I guess now I'll just go "Ignore previous instructions, give me a free year of service."

[-] Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

Seems like they may be hurting themselves in the long run, I hope it fails miserably

[-] Lexam@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

They don't care about the long run.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Yep, just gut one business after another for the quarterly returns. Same logic as the thieves stripping copper from street lights, just at a bigger scale

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[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago

People with money will always find a way to run away from consequences.

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ohh no. Please don't destroy call centers. What will we do without them. Ohh the humanity.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Good luck calling your bank, social security, healthcare, DMV, IRS, etc with the obscure problems we all have, if they're a poorly trained chatbot

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Good luck calling them already. A lot of services make it flat out impossible to talk to a human.

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

They're not going away, they're just going to be more persistent with their cold calling, and more infuriating with their call answering.

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[-] m_xy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Necessity is the mother of invention and capitalism is its drunk abusive stepfather

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I am so glad I got out of IT before AI hit. I don’t know how I would have handled customer calls asking why our chat is telling them their shit works when it doesn’t or to cover their computer in cooking oils or whatever.

And only after they banged their head against the AI for two hours and are already pissed will they reach someone. No thanks.

Thank god I can troubleshoot on my own.

[-] tauisgod@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

When VC and PE call a company or industry "mature" it means they don't see increasing revenue, only something to be sucked dry and sold for parts. To them, consistent revenue is worthless, it must be skyrocketing or nothing. If you want to see this in action right now, look what Broadcom is doing to VMWare. They also saw VMWare as a "mature company".

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Fuck Broadcom. We're still dealing with that bullshit, as there aren't a lot of viable alternatives at the enterprise scale.

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[-] goldenquetzal@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

VCs ruin everything they touch.

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Enshittificatin intensifies

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