"Losing your job to AI" stories
I've seen this article interviewing many people whose jobs have been impacted by AI in a variety of places around the internet. A lot of the people in this story are fully out of work because the people with money are trying to use image generation technology.
It's worth a read. There are, unsurprisingly, a good number of stories in here about people whose jobs have been impacted by an AI strategy that does not work. There are a lotta rich guys out there trying and failing to use AI, and laying off or overworking or blaming the impacted workers anyway.
Tangentially related: given their high rate of failure, and the number of stories I've heard about AI initiatives failing and bosses kind of not caring that they've failed, or not reacting to their failure in any meaningful way... I've been wondering how many AI initiatives are not motivating layoffs but rather a kind of slimeball, half-assed rhetorical cover for layoffs that would have happened anyway. Maybe the workers would have ended up shortstaffed and scrambling regardless... but with AI as a rhetorical cover, a boss can blame that stress on the workers and on their failure to "adopt new technologies" or to excel at AI use. One great reason to organize your workplace against the use of AI is to deny bosses the rhetorical cover associated with LLMs and image generation services. If the business isn't making money... if it doesn't have a future... everyone there deserves to know. Your boss does not deserve the ass-covering that a "pivot to AI" allows.