March 2023 was when GPT 4 was released. Maybe it’s coincidental, but I think the AI hype has some factor in it. Companies got an excuse (a bad one) to lay off their staff.
There was a recent article somewhere here on Lemmy finding that this trend was pretty uniform across sectors with different exposure to AI, so maybe it’s not that.
March 2023 was when GPT 4 was released. Maybe it’s coincidental, but I think the AI hype has some factor in it. Companies got an excuse (a bad one) to lay off their staff.
There was a recent article somewhere here on Lemmy finding that this trend was pretty uniform across sectors with different exposure to AI, so maybe it’s not that.