HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

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• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They could save even more by closing the business altogether

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• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In the meantime, we can expect AI to be at the center of more layoff announcements —whether people believe the job cuts are solely the results of AI or not.

  If the AI bubble pops, you can bet the layoffs will be the result of AI, though not in the way people usually mean by this. Honestly, as much as I don’t want to see what it does to the world, I’m still curious what would/will happen.

  You simply cannot replace people with AI. The statement itself is nonsense. Even so-called “agentic” AI cannot replace an employee in all aspects of work. You would need AGI to approach that.

  Like the article mentions, it’s just an excuse to fire people.

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• leftascenter@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The reductions will largely hit product development, internal operations, and customer support,

  So HP is geared towards buggy products and shit customer support.

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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you’ve ever used their printers you’d already know the company does not make consumer goods. They make soul sucking, joy draining, black holes of money, wrapped in a subscription service that locks all your purchases based on whatever the fuck they feel like.

    And the last time I had to open up an HP PC I cursed their existence. So much useless stupid plastic that makes repair/upgrade tedious to say the least.

    Fuck HP with all the printer cartridges that are still good but unusable because DRM greedy ceos.

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• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And the money trickles up to those highest on the pyramid. Classic

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• AbelianGrape@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For those unaware, HP recently secured one of the most idiotic deals I have ever seen a state-level government agree to: all laptops in Quebec purchased with public funds must be HP laptops. They said this will “encourage competition in the laptop market.”

  I can’t wait to see this new decision blow up in HP’s face.

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Welcome to generic shit slop from hardware companies i guess

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Great, other companies have thought the same and they’re sheepishly realizing that’s not realistic. Let us know how it goes

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wish I owned HP stocks so I could sell them immediately

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• Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Using AI, HP will “accelerate product innovation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost productivity,” Lores said.

  I’m so glad we’re currently using Dell. If we had substantial buy-in to HP products, this nonsense would all but require us to switch to another vendor.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Anytime AI has been involved my customer satisfaction has gone down tremendously

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    • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s clear signalling that customer satisfaction is not the goal, amirite?

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    • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      don’t think hp has to worry about losing customer satisfaction

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• theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who could have seen this coming?

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• thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This title is a bit funny. :D You had me in the first halve, not gonna lie.

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• krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  AI is a wonderful tool capable of streamlining many tasks and making some things far more efficient.

  This is not what it is good for. This is idiotic. I can’t wait to see this blow up in their face.

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They will save millions for a few years, but AI will make their already terrible company absolutely useless, and then go bankrupt and lose everything.

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  • zen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The will save millions for a few quarters, then nose dive into oblivion. Can’t wait.

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    • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Death to the slop cults.

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