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CEO's are driven by compensation packages that are heavily dependant on stock prices and peer pressure. Retaining and retraining good people are just not a factor in their decision making process, neither is social responsibility.

These mega tech companies are now so big and so few that a cartel-effect has definitely emerged and it is resulting in this collective push towards the AI hype train and ofcourse layoffs. Most of this AI training data was scraped surreptitiously, labelled by the poorest of the poor, and then sold as original art which is just not in any meaningful way.

It might be time for us as a society to stop arguing over gender/race/socio-economic/gun politics, or being distracted by AI psuedo prophets saying that AI has some mighty power that we must regulate(to lock-in their 1st mover advantage) and other topics loudly shouted at us by large media companies(which are frequently owned by wealthy interests) and start thinking about how we can reclaim our privacy, freedoms and agency in the halls of our capitals and courts.