Meta faces rising internal friction over rapid AI pivot as CPO Chris Cox calls work environment brutal
Reassigned staff protested mandatory tracking for AI training tasks.
Reassigned staff protested mandatory tracking for AI training tasks.
Reassigned staff protested mandatory tracking for AI training tasks.
Reassigned staff protested mandatory tracking for AI training tasks.

@StephanieKelton So go get another job?? Bunch of whiney kids in adult daycare.
too busy with spacex this week but there's a shitstorm over at meta w/r/t morale a blowup at an internal meeting this week basically made zuckerberg send out a companywide memo to calm things down wired has more deets on all the furor https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/
past 18 months have been sort of insane for Meta and my suspicion is leadership either hasnt tapped into how destabilizing some of these changes have been for rank and file, OR are just trying to push through what is going to be an unavoidable rocky period maybe both
This seems like an ongoing train wreck to try to validate http://scale.ai’s failed human generated data thesis Grifters gonna grift cc @alexandr_wang https://twitter.com/layoffai/status/2065598432652472605
counterpoint: Zuck made his own bed, and has nobody to blame but himself. let capitalism take its course. https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/2065757985427648639
fwiw I don’t think Mark’s memo was because of one dude popping off, things have obviously been simmering for a while there and I imagine that has not been lost on those higher up
they should skip straight to the social network 3 https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/2065552131898425628
Zuck finally gets it. https://twitter.com/mikeisaac/status/2065555450011980198
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