• Scrubbles
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    317 months ago

    Ah, the marketing department had to justify their existence, didn’t they?

    • @avater@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      with AI on the rise of course they do. In our sister company they now axed the whole marketing department and introduced their stupid idea to do everything with ai…

      • @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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        57 months ago

        Downscaling as bad as it sounds, makes sense but to dissolve the entire department??? I am guessing someone on top thinks he can just ask chatgpt to make a photo with a shit prompt, post it on social media during his break and its gonna actually work.

        • @avater@lemmy.world
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          77 months ago

          that was his idea.

          A month later they needed some UI designs so the CEO came with an urgent task to my team and I told him to fuck off and leave my team alone and that he should ask chat gpt for some designs…

      • @emptyother@programming.dev
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        37 months ago

        I assume they’ve already replaced the CEO with an AI before they replaced the workers, right? That should be the easiest to swap out because any AI generated mistakes would be caught by the people doing the work just like we’ve always done with CEO generated mistakes.