On Wednesday, July 2, after several days of speculation, Microsoft confirmed a huge wave of layoffs, wares of 9,000 people, especially within its video game branch, Xbox. One of his studies to close its doors while working on the ambitious Perfect darkwhile others have seen that their numbers are drastically reduced, such as turn10 (Forza Motorsports) that he saw his salary invoice melting at 50%.
But for Matt Turnbull, executive producer at Xbox Studios, this is an opportunity to use generative artificial intelligence to … find work. In a message transmitted on LinkedIn, and since then deleted, this publication manager has published a message giving notice examples to injured employees.
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“I have experienced ways to use generative artificial intelligence (ChatgPT or Copilot Comm) to help reduce the emotional and intellectual burden that accompanies the loss of their work,” said Xbox manager.
Therefore, it gives as an example a warning requesting the generative to find job offers according to the experience, roles already obtained in the past, everything when creating “a plan in 30 days.” It also invites interested people to send their CV to an AI so that she can analyze it and generate LinkedIn publications to try to obtain new opportunities.
The message caused a certain discomfort, pushing Matt Turnbull to eliminate him a little more than 24 hours later.
If artificial intelligence can be effective in the job search, LinkedIn’s publication of this Xbox official is clumsy, to say the least, when the dismissals of his company refer to so many people.
Especially because, since the formalization of this new internal purge, several former employees have indicated that the press had warned them that they had no more work, or when discovering the same morning that they no longer had access to their professional tools.
Matt Booty, the Xbox Studios manager, said that this wave of layoffs had finished several projects, formalized or not.
Source: BFM TV
