And bear in mind that most corporate messing around with LLMs is only really in the last couple of years. Even where companies are being honest, figuring out whether something works takes time.
You automate 10% of the work across the workforce of say 100 and then you can reduce headcount by a couple
The CEO proudly announcing we just fired all of our category X people are doing it for publicity and become part of a statistic like this
The real problems is that companies will just learn not to be so blatant about it. The replacement will happen more strategically, over a longer term, with promises about AI-augmentation rather than replacement. But over a longer period of time, jobs openings will go down nonetheless, and over decades, we will see the same thing until it will be still quite hard to get a new job. And I don't think UBI is a good answer either, because too many people are not self-directed enough to be happy without expending effort towards meaningful goals of obtaining necessities.
nemomarx•1d ago