Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers

Patreon 裁员 20%

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn’t making these changes “because we believe AI replaces humans,” but says AI has “fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work, how we build products, how we communicate, and more.”

据 404 Media 此前报道，Patreon 正在裁减 20% 的员工，约涉及 93 人。Patreon 首席执行官 Jack Conte 在给员工的备忘录中写道，公司做出这些调整并非“因为我们认为人工智能会取代人类”，但他表示，人工智能已经“从根本上改变了科技行业，包括我们的工作方式、产品构建方式、沟通方式等等。”

That shift has changed “how we operate and organize,” Conte writes.

Conte 写道，这种转变已经改变了“我们的运营和组织方式”。

During an interview on Decoder, last month, Conte laid out his stance on AI, saying that the company is “100 percent embracing” AI tools internally to continue serving creators:

在上个月接受《Decoder》采访时，Conte 阐述了他对人工智能的立场，称公司正在内部“百分之百地拥抱”人工智能工具，以继续为创作者提供服务：

“If Patreon does not fully embrace these tools as a product and engineering company — and we are ultimately a product and engineering company — and use them to give the power back to creators, we, as a company, will be dead in three years.”

“如果 Patreon 作为一家产品和工程公司——我们本质上就是一家产品和工程公司——不能充分拥抱这些工具，并利用它们将权力交还给创作者，那么我们这家公司三年内就会消亡。”

Patreon previously laid off 17 percent of workers in 2022, as well as closed its offices in Dublin and Berlin.

Patreon 此前曾在 2022 年裁员 17%，并关闭了其在都柏林和柏林的办事处。