{"id":1023609,"date":"2026-07-25T08:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023609"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:06:33","slug":"ai-not-a-replacement-for-humans-patreon-announces-20-staff-cuts-in-painful-update-to-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/ai-not-a-replacement-for-humans-patreon-announces-20-staff-cuts-in-painful-update-to-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI not a replacement for humans\u2019: Patreon announces 20% staff cuts in \u2018painful\u2019 update to employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creator-economy startup Patreon\u2019s chief executive officer, Jack Conte, announced Thursday (US time) that the company was laying off about 20% of its workforce, accounting for 93 employees. Sharing the news in a public blog post titled \u201cA Painful Update About Our Team,\u201d he dismissed artificial intelligence as a factor fuelling the job cuts. <\/p>\n<p>In the note shared online, Conte went into great detail about what was changing at Patreon amid the ongoing restructuring and how things would move forward after the workforce reduction. Despite the changes, the platform\u2019s top boss affirmed that nothing about their \u201ccore business\u201d would take a hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creator-economy startup Patreon\u2019s chief executive officer, Jack Conte, announced Thursday (US time) that the company was laying off about 20% of its workforce, accounting for 93 employees. Sharing the news in a public blog post titled \u201cA Painful Update About Our Team,\u201d he dismissed artificial intelligence as a factor fuelling the job cuts. In the note shared online, Conte went into great detail about what was changing at Patreon amid the ongoing restructuring and how things would move forward after the workforce reduction. Despite the changes, the platform\u2019s top boss affirmed that nothing about their \u201ccore business\u201d would take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023655,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023609\/revisions\/1023655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}