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By Daniel Butcher<\/a><\/p>\n

Layoffs at big tech companies are not always what they seem\u2014and they may or may not be directly caused by AI. Behind the headline numbers is a quieter, more complex reshuffling of work, noted Fabio Lauria, founder and CEO of AI analytics company Electe: Open roles are never filled, employees are moved internally between teams and departments, and more work shifts to contractors or is automated.<\/p>\n

According to Academy of Management Scholar Christine Moser<\/a> of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, many companies are cutting headcount and laying off personnel, either directly or indirectly due to AI.<\/p>\n

When companies such as Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta recently announced major cuts, the numbers included not just people losing jobs\u2014which tends to boost each company\u2019s stock price\u2014but also positions that were simply canceled before hiring began. Filings from Oracle show a similar pattern, with roles disappearing in one part of the business while reappearing elsewhere. The result is not simple downsizing; it is ongoing organizational churn amid restructuring, where the shape of work\u2014and the workforce\u2014changes even when the work itself does not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is definitely going on\u2014we already actually see jobs disappearing,\u201d Moser said. \u201cThink of people who translate\u2014that\u2019s a dying species.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother one is creating marketing content or even promotional clips,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve heard companies selling their completely automated chatbots, so even call-center work is already being replaced and disappearing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consulting is another industry being turned on its head by AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother big chunk of work being disrupted by AI is consultants,\u201d Moser said. \u201cThere are many, many consultants in this world, and especially the junior functions are being replaced already by generative AI, which raises a number of questions for the profession going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be clear, it\u2019s not crazy that jobs disappear and others come up,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s always happening, especially since the Industrial Revolution, whereas, before that, it was pretty stable for quite a while. But since then, we see new jobs coming up and others disappearing because they have been made redundant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will AI companies be forced to respect copyright law?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A growing wave of lawsuits is challenging how AI models are trained, with media companies, artists, and studios alleging that AI companies used their copyrighted work to train their algorithms without permission. Cases such as The New York Times<\/em> vs. OpenAI and Microsoft, Sarah Andersen vs. Stability AI, and Warner Bros. Discovery vs. Midjourney all claim intellectual property theft and demand compensation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we see here is a different matter, because, indeed, besides these jobs disappearing, there\u2019s the question of copyright protection and enforcement,\u201d Moser said. \u201cPeople created these texts, whether they be articles, books, poems, or criticism, so they should be compensated for their use.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were systems in place that made sure you would get compensated, but now that seems to be off the table, and, for the most part, artists are not getting paid what AI companies owe them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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