lol Time calling a bunch of figureheads “architects” like the vapid shills that they are. None of these fucks has ever architected anything.
'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year
Submitted 1 day ago by remington@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly01mdm577o
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Toneswirly@beehaw.org 1 day ago
luciole@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Time magazine going hard making clear on which side of the class war they stand.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Time Person of the Year is not an endorsement.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 1 day ago
True, but the picture tells a story on its own.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
This feels like rage bait. From the decision itself, to praising the executives rather than the techies, to putting them up on the girder like they were the common man doing a tough and dangerous job to build our modern city. You don’t just choose the worst thing at every possible decision point by accident.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
Adolf Hitler was the man of the year in 1938.
Instead of a conventional portrait, the cover was an illustration by Rudolph von Ripper entitled ‘From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate’.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
reminder that person of the year is the person or thing that was most newsworthy the past year not an endorsement or praise
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
That sure is the company line.
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Doesn’t really matter if they say it’s praise or not. The reality is that it’s free press, and hardly could be said to be negative. It benefits them.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 23 hours ago
That hasn’t been a thing since 2001.
Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 day ago
spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org 1 day ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benioff
Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the software company Salesforce, as well as being the owner of Time magazine since 2018.
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In January 2023 Benioff announced the mass dismissal of approximately 7,000 Salesforce employees via a two-hour all-hands meeting over a call, a course of action he later admitted had been a ‘bad idea’.
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In September 2025, Benioff reduced Salesforce’s support workforce from 9,000 to about 5,000 employees because he “need[ed] less heads”. Salesforce stated that AI agents now handle half of all customer interactions and have reduced support costs by 17% since early 2025. The company added it had redeployed hundreds of employees into other departments within the company. The decision contrasted with Benioff’s earlier remarks suggesting that artificial intelligence would augment, rather than replace, white-collar workers.
haha consent factory go brrrr
Corngood@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I don’t usually wish for a crane disaster.
Glide@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oh god, the replacement of he iron workers in the skyscraper with the ruling elite class who literally contribute a tiny fraction of what they take from society is perhaps the most tone deaf take I have ever seen. Just absolutely disgusting, gutwrenching comparison, yet strangely poignant, as their goal is to make the working class disappear.
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Yeah, you have to be super blind ethically to not understand that this is a highly fucked-up idea to come up and then follow through with (not that I’m surprised).
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This. So much this
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I do wonder what comes next for average people. I used to think a UBI would solve the world’s problems, but now I believe it would be just used as a method of controlling the general population. We’re a ways off yet from everything being replaced by this garbage, but when the time comes, I’m nervous about what will happen.