XBox Producer Suggests Recent Layoffs Use AI For Emotional Support for Losing Jobs to AI

Magic-DEI-Hire said:
I had already sworn off of using most Microsoft products and services prior to today (and especially AI, fuck all AI products and services as they are a blight on humanity and threaten human existence with the removal of jobs) - Xbox was the only thing I occasionally bought a game or two for. Not anymore though — today starts a full-on boycott of all of their games, services, and products. I refuse to support pieces of shit like this company, and especially the tone-deaf jackass who wrote this LinkedIn slop.

Actions speak louder than words - if anyone wants things to change, you have to collectively hit them where it hurts, which is their bottom line (ie. $$$).
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MS makes all their money from enterprise accounts. Lots of companies have their internal servers and analytics built on Office sevvices.

MS doesn't care about Windows as an OS, or Xbox as a console. To them, they are only frontends for Copilot and Office. I'm not saying people shouldn't stop using Windows, but it isn't going to make much of a difference to their bottom line.
 
Jinzo Prime said:
MS makes all their money from enterprise accounts. Lots of companies have their internal servers and analytics built on Office sevvices.

MS doesn't care about Windows as an OS, or Xbox as a console. To them, they are only frontends for Copilot and Office. I'm not saying people shouldn't stop using Windows, but it isn't going to make much of a difference to their bottom line.
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Any difference made is collectively worth it - there are a number of alternatives for every product and service that they offer. Microsoft is on my permanent blacklist.
 
Jinzo Prime said:
Matt Turnbull has been a producer at Microsoft since 2010, and an executive producer since 2024. 15 years of producing does not make you a mid-level employee. He is entrenched in the Microsoft culture because he's been there for so long, and is just repeating what he's been taught: psychopathy and heartlessness.
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Tenure is not the same as seniority.
 
Let then eat cake moment from one of the most parasitic, monopolistic corporations in the US that has made worse every single industry it has infected
 
The Cockatrice said:
Microsoft sucks, but at the end of the day you are all going to keep buying their games even if made by AI so they don't care. Words are useless. Corporations will always win as long as there are consumers.
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Exactly. And what will NeoGAF do when Sony follows suit at a smaller scale because they have Waaaaay less devs, of course. Wasn't it just last year where both MS and Sony were doing these layoffs at a smaller scale? Everyone going with a Switch until Nintendo eventually follows suit?
 
Glorious day for all the blue collar workers told they had to go to college, spend 100k or more, as technology was making their own jobs, obsolete.

Over the next 10 years or so, to watch AI devour all these jobs, there is going to be some folks living this up for a very long time.

All that wasted money and thinking they were better than little Joe Smoe in West Virginia.

Another amazing day, folks. Happy Fourth.
 
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It looks like you're tying a noose
word everyone GIF
 
DavidGzz said:
Exactly. And what will NeoGAF do when Sony follows suit at a smaller scale because they have Waaaaay less devs, of course. Wasn't it just last year where both MS and Sony were doing these layoffs at a smaller scale? Everyone going with a Switch until Nintendo eventually follows suit?
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SonyToo is deeply ingrained with you Xbox fanatics. Microsoft can't ever be called out without the "hur dur, but SonyToo"
 
The cool thing is Microsoft's AI can work on improving IDF targeting systems for missiles that hit refugee camps and develop the newest COD propaganda game at the same time

I don't see any humans doing that
 
Punished Miku said:
There are already lawsuits over this kind of stuff. I'm honestly surprised they'd even attempt linking AI to mental health counseling after a major stressor like job loss. If it even slightly says something wrong they'll get sued.

For all you guys against AI, hope you were telling your congressmen to not pass that big beautiful piece of shit getting signed today. It has a provision in it blocking states from regulating anything related to AI for 10 years. Think about that. We can see something wrong as they roll this stuff out and they're prevented from regulating it. Happy 4th everyone. Should be a very dystopian next 10 years.
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Thankfully that provision got pulled, but the bill is still pork loaded piece of crap that will jack up deficit by $trillions and make life actively worse for a lot of folks.
 
LinkedIn overtaking Reddit for sheer nuttiness. What a Patrick Bateman turn of events.

For anyone wondering how this guy does not get it. They live in a bubble with their own kind. And then extend that outside of office hours. Exclusive schools, clubs, college, restaurants, bars, neighborhoods. It's everything. The media often downplays it. Hey, that head honcho boss drinks Heineken. What a normal everyday person!
 
No BBC=Anger said:
LinkedIn overtaking Reddit for sheer nuttiness. What a Patrick Bateman turn of events.

For anyone wondering how this guy does not get it. They live in a bubble with their own kind. And then extend that outside of office hours. Exclusive schools, clubs, college, restaurants, bars, neighborhoods. It's everything. The media often downplays it. Hey, that head honcho boss drinks Heineken. What a normal everyday person!
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yep. fundamentally, american psycho as a 'how to' guide...
 
Klayzer said:
SonyToo is deeply ingrained with you Xbox fanatics. Microsoft can't ever be called out without the "hur dur, but SonyToo"
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Fanatics lol, you're the one who may be one with how much my post aggravated you. PC main here with a Pro that admittedly collects dust until Yotei releases. But you know I'm right. We'll see you all boycott the whole industry when A.I. takes over.
 
The less braindead version of this would be to take advantage of AI tools to help look for another job, or examine what skillsets to build to better your chances in whatever particular area you're in.

That said, these layoffs aren't just because AI is replacing these people.
 
Moridianae said:
In the wake of everything that has transpired(and seemingly continues) for the last 48 hours, I don't see how anyone could continue to support Microsoft, really.
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Pretty much this. Series X is my third Xbox console but it will be my last. They have no strategy, no product, no future. It's over.
 
Punished Miku said:
There are already lawsuits over this kind of stuff. I'm honestly surprised they'd even attempt linking AI to mental health counseling after a major stressor like job loss. If it even slightly says something wrong they'll get sued.

For all you guys against AI, hope you were telling your congressmen to not pass that big beautiful piece of shit getting signed today. It has a provision in it blocking states from regulating anything related to AI for 10 years. Think about that. We can see something wrong as they roll this stuff out and they're prevented from regulating it. Happy 4th everyone. Should be a very dystopian next 10 years.
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Not to get too political, but as a non-American a bill of this nature passing into law is insane to see, but I want to hone in on the A.I aspect as it pertains to this topic and your comment. Of all the things that shouldn't be regulated, A.I is at the top of the list for things that absolutely requires heavy watchdogging, because it should be obvious to a 5 year old how it will be commonly applied and the effects on society.

Like, what the fuck happened for us to be marching to the same dystopian hellscape so many sci-fi movies and shows have warned about for decades?!
 
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dragonyeuw said:
Like, what the fuck happened for us to be marching to the same dystopian hellacape so many sci-fi movies and shows have warned about for decades?!
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The sci-fi genre, in its inception, served as a "warning" of the potential threats of technology and as a safe laboratory study of dystopian socities.

However, somewhere along the way, the political propaganda machine turned this upside down and managed to make it an "anti-warning" of sorts so people DONT SEE the danger coming, BECAUSE they have seen it before in a movie.

How many times have you heard the fallacious argument "this can't be possible, its like in the movies, so it can't happen"

Well, we have had this fallacy applied in a certain global event five years ago, with people coming up with fantasy explanations to something that we have seen in REALISTIC movies many times. Yet, most people couldn't see it because the obvious explanation has been explored in movies many times, so it couldn't be real.

It's orchestrated and it's evil.
 
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People should assign the correct amount of weight to a thing happening in a movie, which is zero.

A movie where a society forfeits economic superiority and suffers the consequences of doing so by choosing not to use AI would probably not be as exciting as a movie where AI flips out and kills everyone, and thus is less likely to be made.

A movie where society wildly overreacts to a new virus and self-inflicts more harm long term than it avoided probably wouldn't be as exciting as the virus movies we got either. Did the sensational nature of those movies help enable that overreaction in policy and the willingness to go along with it for so long? Perhaps.

Policymakers shouldn't be making decisions based on movies. They are by their nature as for-profit entertainment going to be heavily skewed toward whatever the most exciting / sensational outcome is. Policymakers have to -or at least ought to- also consider the less sensational but real consequences of the available options, where a movie has the luxury of pretending they don't exist.
 
I've seen people on reddit say they talk to chatgpt. That's just sad.

If you're going through shit, go talk to a therapist. If they suck, find another one.
 
i mean. Hey ChatGPT, how can i say fuck you to Phil without saying it?

🔥 Sarcastic / Icy:

  • "Thank you for reminding us that 'gaming is about people'… as long as they're not employees."
  • "Truly inspiring leadership—cutting thousands while talking about 'community.'"
  • "Hope the bonus was worth it."
  • "Really putting the 'visionary' in 'visionary cost-cutting.'"
  • "What a brave way to 'restructure'—by wrecking lives."


🎯 Snide / Disguised Insult:


  • "Phil really showed us what 'power your dreams' means… nightmares for devs."
  • "Can't wait to see the 'creative freedom' flourish after firing the creators."
  • "Love how Xbox is innovating the art of saying 'we value talent' with a pink slip."


💀 Cold Truth:


  • "People don't forget when you treat them like disposable assets."
  • "No press release can cover up 4,000 livelihoods trashed."
  • "You didn't just cut jobs—you cut trust."

Add shade to the Shills that keep running damage control for Phil cofcof Jez Corden:


🔥 Direct but Polished:


  • "Ah yes, the classic Xbox maneuver: when things go to hell, blame the cloud or AI—never the guy who's been steering the ship into the iceberg."
  • "4,000 people laid off under Phil's watch, but Jez wants you to believe it's just AI doing AI things. Amazing how responsibility always floats upward."
  • "Phil gets the credit when things go well. But when 4,000 lose their jobs? Suddenly it's Satya's fault. Convenient."
  • "Jez out here blaming AI like Phil wasn't right there nodding through every layoff meeting."


😏 Sarcastic & Cutting:


  • "AI didn't greenlight bad acquisitions, overexpand Xbox, or mismanage studios—that was all very human."
  • "Didn't know AI could personally approve mass layoffs. Must be one of those new Copilot features."
  • "If AI is to blame, why is Phil still giving interviews instead of ChatGPT?"
  • "Funny how AI gets blamed for layoffs but not for Game Pass stagnation. Pick a narrative and commit."


🧠 For the "Smart" Crowd:


  • "Deflecting to Nadella and AI is like blaming the weather for crashing the car—when we all saw who was at the wheel."
  • "Jez spinning layoffs as a 'corporate inevitability' is peak corporate bootlicking with a tech twist."
  • "There's a word for this kind of narrative protection: insulation. And Xbox has plenty of it."

BRAAAH I'm crying over here :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
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Punished Miku said:
There are already lawsuits over this kind of stuff. I'm honestly surprised they'd even attempt linking AI to mental health counseling after a major stressor like job loss. If it even slightly says something wrong they'll get sued.

For all you guys against AI, hope you were telling your congressmen to not pass that big beautiful piece of shit getting signed today. It has a provision in it blocking states from regulating anything related to AI for 10 years. Think about that. We can see something wrong as they roll this stuff out and they're prevented from regulating it. Happy 4th everyone. Should be a very dystopian next 10 years.
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I'm pretty sure that provision blocking AI regulation was dropped.
 
Dear Xbox,

Only put out software and on all platforms, shitcan the hardware, and never let Phil Spencer or any other corporate frat boy muppet say anything publicly to anyone again. Then you'll be precisely where you belong in this industry.

Sincerely,

Me
 
VAVA Mk2 said:
This company is tone deaf, evil, or both. Insane they would say something like this and so soon after mass layoffs.

aftermath.site

Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' - Aftermath

'I'm struggling with imposter syndrome after being laid off'
aftermath.site aftermath.site
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Dystopian.


Skifi28 said:
AI helps you overcome the issues you wouldn't have had in the first place if it wasn't for AI.
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Lol.
 
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I just asked CharGPT to help me define this type of person. Quite fitting result:

"Fake-empathy grifter, corporate opportunist, buzzword parasite, trauma-hijacking blowhard, misery-milking asshole."

Long title description for a dickhead asshole.
 
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