AI Isn't Going Well For Corporations

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]Large study This was sent to me by by an anonymous source. Large study finds that replacing workers with AI is backfiring badly. That is a bad headline. That is not what the study found.

[00:00:09]It just found that there was no difference.

[00:00:12]It just found there was no difference.

[00:00:14]Yeah. Like So, 80% is that they they surveyed 350 global business executives whose companies are at like at least churning in a billion dollars of revenue annually.

[00:00:27]Um and 80% of them admitted to trimming their human staff to make investments in AI or autonomous technology.

[00:00:34]Um but then when it was compared to the companies that had not done that, there was no appreciable difference in revenue.

[00:00:42]Fun.

[00:00:44]So, replacing your employees with AI does not help your business. It just makes you look scummy.

[00:00:52]Congrats.

[00:00:53]Yeah. And then uh what this article points out is that uh to make matters worse, many of these businesses specifically reduced their head count to free up the cash needed for AI technology, meaning they sacrificed valuable institutional knowledge and employee goodwill for nothing.

[00:01:09]So, they were like, "We're firing people so we can free up resources to throw at this AI thing." And then the AI thing didn't actually help them.

[00:01:16]Imagine being literally any of these losers. Just any of them at all.

[00:01:21]And institutional knowledge is a very important thing that a lot of companies just kind of ignore and assume will always be there.

[00:01:29]But like there are a limited number of people who know how to properly set up a uh machine tooling factory out there. Like um the Smarter Every Day guy. He made like a barbecue scrubber.

[00:01:44]And he made videos about his process of developing the barbecue scrubber. And at one step in the process, he was talking about how like, "Oh, the this guy who is designing the die cast or something."

[00:01:54]Like I don't know. Some [ __ ] machining thing that I don't [ __ ] know because I don't have the institutional knowledge.

[00:01:59]Um but like one of the machining parts of the of his tool, it was like "You are one of like five guys left in the United States who knows how to do this and you're like 70 years old."

[00:02:11]So like people are saying "Manufacture in America." Okay, but the Americans don't know how to do this [ __ ] anymore.

[00:02:18]Which is not necessarily a problem if you're going to play nice globally.

[00:02:23]You know what's funny?

[00:02:24]We do this with so many industries. You know what's really dumb?

[00:02:29]It costs several thousand dollars to become a pilot. You know what America has a lot?

[00:02:36]You know what America has a distinct lack of right now? Pilots. You know what America has a distinct lack of as well that costs thousands of dollars to get? Doctors.

[00:02:47]We don't invest in our own people.

[00:02:49]We We tell everybody "Do for Do for your country." But then but the country doesn't [ __ ] do anything for the people at all.

[00:02:57]Yeah.

[00:02:58]It's It's all brain drain at this point.

[00:03:00]But like I'm not even I'm not even one of these people that's like "Oh, we need to bring manufacturing jobs back."

[00:03:06]Because you know that's the reason the '50s were so good is because manufacturing was high. The '50s was also when we taxed billionaires at 94%.

[00:03:12]Um but yeah, no. I um I'm not in this we need to go back to these old school things to But it like that that is just it's highlighting a very real issue where there is expertise that is needed for certain things and that expertise is no longer existing in the states because the states has been very anti-expert for longer than Trump.

[00:03:43]The death of expertise is a thing.

[00:03:46]Like I I remember when I was in the multi-level marketing business, one of the quotes that got brought from the speakers on the stage fairly frequently was the I want to say it was Henry Ford who said it, so it kind of actually tracks. I might be wrong on that, but um it's like nothing is quite as um nothing is quite as ingrained as the ignorance of the experts.

[00:04:09]Cuz they're like, "Oh well, if you're an expert, then you're really, really good at this one thing, but you shouldn't listen to the experts for anything else."

[00:04:15]And that very easily turns to we can ignore you on that one thing, too, as long as we can find a different expert that contradicts you.

[00:04:23]Like here's the thing, a lot of experts do get arrogant because they are experts in their field, but then people mistake that arrogance as ignorance. Having a very narrow expertise does make you ignorant in fields that are not your own, and if you are an established field and things in that field change out from under you and you refuse to change with them, you can be an expert in your field and your field move on ahead without you, Dawkins.

[00:04:55]That can happen, [clears throat] but it doesn't mean that you completely dismiss expertise as a thing. Look, I I find it quite remarkable that the the AI it appears to be sentient now. Claude Claude sucked my knob and my my wife won't do that anymore, so you know. She she would like to have my giant saline-enhanced testicular She wants my babies, actually, and I think that that's astounding.

[00:05:22]It's a sign she has a beautiful mind.

[00:05:25]Yeah. I love a reality. It's great. It's fantastic.

[00:05:30]Yeah, no, I take it back. Some of the experts are ignorant. [ __ ] Dawkins.

[00:05:34]>> [laughter] >> Uh >> [sighs] >> yeah, but no, the the death of expertise is a real thing, and it is a problem.

[00:05:42]And yeah, no, I'm not advocating for going back to uh manufacturing as being the primary part of your con- like you're a service economy now.

[00:05:51]Canada's a service economy, too. Like that it's just it's a thing that has happened. But, um, firing people that have expertise in things to hire LLMs that are going to hallucinate the wrong answer a bunch of times.

[00:06:05]Yes, I agree.

[00:06:07]>> And I've actually seen people are very fast to jump to that's AI whenever there's something dumb.

[00:06:14]Mhm. And it's it's I it start it's kind of annoying me, but I also kind of get it. Cuz like you do you know how many times I've like been scrolling on social media and I see a picture of a cute animal and the first thought in my head is, oh, that's just fake [ __ ] Like >> That's not a cute animal. That's a [ __ ] [ __ ] >> scrolling. Whatever.

[00:06:36]It's It was a nice little break. But now, because that's a thing that people have done with AI is like, oh, make a cute There's so many [ __ ] cute animals out there, man. Why you got to fake pictures of it?

[00:06:47][ __ ] off.

[00:06:48]Um, but like because of that now my first thought is like, oh, that's probably fake [ __ ] Yeah. And I I hate it. And so I get it when people do it like, um, freaking Calvin from Answers in Genesis.

[00:07:01]Uh, he used so much AI in the last video that I responded to, um, that people were actually accusing him of have like the There was a moment in it where he he quoted himself from an older article and then he attributed that quote to a to a biologist.

[00:07:19]So like he he wrote he wrote an article and then he quoted that article and then he said, this biologist said this thing that I said in this previous article.

[00:07:27]Like it it's just mind-bogglingly bad.

[00:07:31]And I can see with the way the articles were written, I can see how honest mistakes could have gotten to that point. How just mere incompetence could could gotten to that point. However, AIG has a staff. They have people working on this [ __ ] That is unacceptable.

[00:07:49]So, like it doesn't matter whether it's dishonest or like whether it was an honest mistake or if it's just them lying. That is unacceptable.

[00:07:58]Um but there were people that were like, "Oh, he probably just had ChatGPT write the script for him." And ChatGPT misassociates uh misassociates >> That doesn't make it better.

[00:08:09]But no, the his article that he quoted in was written before they started using ChatGPT for this sort of [ __ ] Like I I it was 2022, so it was like right on the cusp.

[00:08:19]I don't like was ChatGPT available publicly in 2022? I think it was I think they came out in 2021.

[00:08:25]>> it was available publicly then. It wasn't that great >> very good then. It like people wouldn't rely on it as much as they do now.

[00:08:33]So, like I'm I'm fairly confident in saying that he did not use ChatGPT to write the article in 2022 that served as the the script for the video. Cuz he he did the same thing in that article.

[00:08:44]But um yeah, and it's one of those things like th- this is just where like I I hate that the default response now to things that are bad is, "Oh, that's AI bullshit."

[00:08:54]Because sometimes people are just bad.

[00:08:57]But it also feels like a cop out. Like it almost feels like letting them off the hook because that's a mistake anyone could have made just by trusting their chatbot.

[00:09:05]Like mhm, they still have a staff that should have been able to check it.

[00:09:08]Just don't trust a chatbot. And that honestly, the just don't trust a chatbot is probably why these companies have not been seeing a profit because they fired people and then hired chatbots and then the chatbots did the wrong thing, so they had to have the people that they had left spend extra resources and time and stuff correcting the mistakes that the chatbot makes. And yeah, they are getting better over time.

[00:09:30]But just the way the technology works is basically just predictive text, so there there always be the potential for hallucination with the way they currently work.

[00:09:39]I don't like the reality I live in. Can you take me out of it? Actually don't.

[00:09:42]There are guns. They can do that just fine.

[00:09:44]Budd Dwyer.

[00:09:46]>> [laughter] >> Be brave like Budd.

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