On October 21, a Douban user posted that AI-driven layoffs are becoming increasingly common: apart from "Ningxia News Broadcast," the anchors at Ningxia TV have been replaced by AI; after Lao Gan Ma introduced AI pepper selection, the pepper-sorting positions were cut from more than 600 people to 48; the post also listed large-scale layoffs at multiple overseas tech companies including Coinbase, PayPal, and Meta.