Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or about 93 employees I mentioned it earlier before 404 media. In a note to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conti Writes that the company The company isn’t making these changes “because we believe AI is replacing humans,” but says AI has “fundamentally transformed the technology industry, including how we work, how we build products, how we communicate, and more.”

This shift changed “how we work and organize,” Conte wrote.

during Interview on Decryptionlast monthConte clarified his stance on AI, saying that the company is “100 percent adopting” AI tools internally to continue serving creators:

If Patreon doesn’t fully embrace these tools as a product and engineering company — and we are, after all, a product and engineering company — and use them to return power to creators, we, as a company, will be dead in three years.