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[bitbydeath]

Tin foil hat time folks.

Could Microsoft be the most evilest company to ever exist?

It appears that Microsoft are using Xbox as a testbed to see what they can get away with in terms of AI.

A top Microsoft executive recently told the BBC that the next half century will "fundamentally be defined by artificial intelligence,", changing the way we work and interact with one another.

Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 jobs as it invests in AI - BBC News

The US tech giant will axe 4% of its global workforce and plough money into artificial intelligence.

www.bbc.com

The problem is, if it succeeds, other companies will want to follow suit once they see a successful use case. This will no doubt cause a domino effect, presenting companies with an option to do the exact same, gutting employees all over the world to drive their own stocks higher, while Microsoft reaps the benefits of societies downfall by supplying everyone with AI as the replacement.

This fear of AI taking over has been with us for a long time, but unless I'm mistaken it looks like Microsoft might be hastily trying to bring this into existence, starting with Xbox.

It may only start in gaming but if it truly takes off you can bet it won't stop there.

 

[K' Dash]

come the fuck on OP... every fucking company has been cutting thousands of jobs, this is not exclusive to MS, its just the latest one to do it. The job market is fucked right now.

 

[LakeOf9]

Didnt the East India Company colonize dozens of countries and enslave hundreds of millions of people?

Hard to top that

 

[Ristifer]

 

[bitbydeath]

come the fuck on OP... every fucking company has been cutting thousands of jobs, this is not exclusive to MS, its just the latest one to do it. The job market is fucked right now.

This is about cutting employees and replacing their jobs with AI, not just general firings/redundancies.

 

[Syphon Filter]

come the fuck on OP... every fucking company has been cutting thousands of jobs, this is not exclusive to MS, its just the latest one to do it. The job market is fucked right now.

MS is a scumbag company, look at their history.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Ever?

 

[MayauMiao]

Tin foil hat time folks.

Could Microsoft be the most evilest company to ever exist?

It appears that Microsoft are using Xbox as a testbed to see what they can get away with in terms of AI.

Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 jobs as it invests in AI - BBC News

The US tech giant will axe 4% of its global workforce and plough money into artificial intelligence.

www.bbc.com

The problem is, if it succeeds, other companies will want to follow suit once they see a successful use case. This will no doubt cause a domino effect, presenting companies with an option to do the exact same, gutting employees all over the world to drive their own stocks higher, while Microsoft reaps the benefits of societies downfall by supplying everyone with AI as the replacement.

This fear of AI taking over has been with us for a long time, but unless I'm mistaken it looks like Microsoft might be hastily trying to bring this into existence, starting with Xbox.

It may only start in gaming but if it truly takes off you can bet it won't stop there.

The same can be applied to any other companies replacing manual labor with robots.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Them and Disney always been.
Both buy and ruin what they buy.

 

[Represent.]

Not Ever. But in modern history, one of.. Its literally impossible to be worth 3 TRILLION dollars and not be shady, grimey and yes evil

 

[LazyParrot]

Every tech company is doing this lol.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[bitbydeath]

Didnt the East India Company colonize dozens of countries and enslave hundreds of millions of people?

Hard to top that

People laugh but this could impact billions if successful.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

this is what happens when you're terminally online folks

 

[semiconscious]

i'm sticking with this one for now: https://www.cargill.com/

 

[MayauMiao]

 

[That Damn Kid]

 

[poppabk]

Didnt the East India Company colonize dozens of countries and enslave hundreds of millions of people?

Hard to top that

Union Carbide Corporation tried their best ti beat them in Bhopal but they were just too small scale.

 

[bitbydeath]

The same can be applied to any other companies replacing manual labor with robots.

That's true, but this has potential to be at a much larger scale.

 

[Gripsx]

M$ always about that $

 

[Hookshot]

Several companies that helped the Nazis still exist.

 

[Codes 208]

Them and Disney always been.
Both buy and ruin what they buy.

I'd argue WB is worse than both of them. Cancelling animated movies left and right when theyre 98% finished just to write them off as tax cuts

 

[IFireflyl]

• Apple
• Disney
• EA
• Facebook
• Google
• Microsoft
• Nvidia

There is a laundry list of vile corporations, and they are constantly competing for the top spot.

 

[MayauMiao]

That's true, but this has potential to be at a much larger scale.

Its already happening before Microsoft but we only notice it because its in the realm of video games.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

This is about cutting employees and replacing their jobs with AI, not just general firings/redundancies.

you think MS is the only company to do layoffs due to AI?

how old are you?

 

[roosnam1980]

 

[bitbydeath]

you think MS is the only company to do layoffs due to AI?

how old are you?

Robots yes, AI itself no.
This is still seeking use cases on how it can potentially work.

 

[K' Dash]

this is what happens when you're terminally online folks

also, terminally retarded.

 

[IAmRei]

in gaming might be yes. but google also evil, and they also on the gaming as well.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

I'd argue WB is worse than both of them. Cancelling animated movies left and right when theyre 98% finished just to write them off as tax cuts

Ruining IP's and cancelling IP's takes the cake for me.

 

[bitbydeath]

Its already happening before Microsoft but we only notice it because its in the realm of video games.

You'd be fooling yourself if you think Microsoft won't do the same to every other one of their tech divisions if this is perceived as successful.

 

[PlayStaytion]

Tin foil hat time folks.

Could Microsoft be the most evilest company to ever exist?

It appears that Microsoft are using Xbox as a testbed to see what they can get away with in terms of AI.

Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 jobs as it invests in AI - BBC News

The US tech giant will axe 4% of its global workforce and plough money into artificial intelligence.

www.bbc.com

The problem is, if it succeeds, other companies will want to follow suit once they see a successful use case. This will no doubt cause a domino effect, presenting companies with an option to do the exact same, gutting employees all over the world to drive their own stocks higher, while Microsoft reaps the benefits of societies downfall by supplying everyone with AI as the replacement.

This fear of AI taking over has been with us for a long time, but unless I'm mistaken it looks like Microsoft might be hastily trying to bring this into existence, starting with Xbox.

It may only start in gaming but if it truly takes off you can bet it won't stop there.

Fortunately, making money from a piece of paper is questionable today. What I did is unrelating education with earning money and decided to enter the real state business before entering the elementary school. Not gonna lie but it consumed me mentally, going to school and being a realtor wasn't easy. Past forward 16 years, I graduated with a tech degree and that degree makes 1000 times more sense while having a portfolio from real estate. It made me think independently and come with brilliant ideas that even real estate don't come close it.

 

[AmuroChan]

Remember when EA was voted worst company in the world some years ago? This is about as hyperbolic as that.

With that said, it doesn't mean that what MS did wasn't gross.

 

[Det]

So Microsoft is going to destroy all their robust businesses, whether profitable or not (Xbox, Office, Windows) to test AI?

Great, Sony doesn't seem to be interested in firing people to replace them with AI, LET ALONE Nintendo.

Linux will continue to work as it does today, because no one will stop contributing to the code to do nothing and let AI robots "program" in their place.

So I will always have Playstation and Nintendo for games and Linux for desktop PCs

 

[Spyxos]

In my book that is still Ea. But ms is making great progress right now.

 

[K' Dash]

Remember when EA was voted worst company in the world some years ago? This is about as hyperbolic as that.

With that said, it doesn't mean that what MS did wasn't gross.

Any company having insane profits, then cutting jobs to make even more, is gross as fuck.

 

[Bojji]

They always were big, soulless evil corporation. Nothing really changed here

They were "cool" only during Xbox "1" - first few years of X360.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

It's all business. If you're worth keeping around adding value you'll keep your job and get paid. If not you get nothing.

No different than everyone's parents. If MS is a scumbag company so are everyone's parents who said no to buying you stuff even though they could afford it and you didn't deserve it.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

microsoft are evil as fuck but playwright is pretty fucking cool... I hope they never get around to enshttify that

 

[bitbydeath]

Great, Sony doesn't seem to be interested in firing people to replace them with AI, LET ALONE Nintendo.

Yet.
Same way as Sony weren't going to charge for online until they saw how lucrative it was.

 

[MayauMiao]

You'd be fooling yourself if you think Microsoft won't do the same to every other one of their tech divisions if this is perceived as successful.

Don't be so foolish to think I don't see Microsoft's scummy ways. To say there are the most evil is like pretending others didn't do the same.

 

[FoxMcChief]

This is the epitome of a situation where bro needs to go touch some grass. In a world where companies that provide products that kill people, create addictions and want to financially ruin folk for their own greed, lunatics focus on a software/hardware company?

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

they are just talentless hacks that have abused their dominant position, without actually being innovative or groundbreaking like Nvidia for example

 

[Topher]

They are shitty company (always have been), but "most evilest to ever exist" is hyperbolic as hell.

 

[Zathalus]

Not even fucking close.

 

[simpatico]

I mean, anyone old enough to remember knows they were built on a bed of evil. Bill Gates didn't innovate anything other than legal strategy. Xbox was almost the only innocent thing they ever did. At least in the beginning.

 

[bitbydeath]

Don't be so foolish to think I don't see Microsoft's scummy ways. To say there are the most evil is like pretending others didn't do the same.

They haven't at this scale yet.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

The only company more evil for true believer bitbydeath :

PS I hate Microsoft.

 

[bitbydeath]

In a world where companies that provide products that kill people, create addictions and want to financially ruin folk for their own greed

AI is that product. If people are forced out of their jobs that is the end result.

 

[U n i o n 0015]

They're a visionless, poorly run corporation but evil is hyperbolic.