One of my bosses cooked his brain on AI hype and slop. Every time I walked by his office for the last several months if he wasn’t in a meeting he was watching some AI slop training.
He once yelled at all of us for not making an AI video since it was the future.
He got laid off last month.
This is what I tell people at work. Bosses have been extremely honest about it. In their telling, we are “unlocking value” by being to replace a highly paid data scientist and a senior analyst with a single junior analyst. The whole point is to deskill the roles so they can pay fewer people less money. This is on top of the usual offshoring and outsourcing.