Alexandr Wang has turned Meta into a sweatshop like the one he used to run. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/metas-months-old-ai-unit-is-a-soul-crushing-gulag-say-the-engineers-stuck-inside-it/
Meta's 6,500-person AI division reportedly faces internal revolt over intense pressure under former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang
Pedro Domingos criticized the unit's environment as a sweatshop.
Many users condemned Meta's new AI unit under Zuck as soul-crushing and exploitative with goals of replacing engineers, while some praised the high performance pay and productivity gains.
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@pmddomingos everyone has to earn their keep, and conditions are now infinitely nicer than going through shell corps in the philippines
Alexandr Wang has turned Meta into a sweatshop like the one he used to run. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/metas-months-old-ai-unit-is-a-soul-crushing-gulag-say-the-engineers-stuck-inside-it/

@pmddomingos Really a shame to watch this happen. They could be competing at the highest levels and they're self-destructing potential here.

@pmddomingos If it worked, they would call him a genius and worth it though right?

@pmddomingos Didn’t trust him from the moment he joined ffs

@pmddomingos Absolutely expected, deserved and representative of the shit that Zucc has been doing in this company since he changed the name for a shit idea.

@Trace_Cohen @pmddomingos If my grandmother had wheels..

@pmddomingos So many pointed out how this would end. Data labeling is a single task that matters but not enough to justify becoming a head at meta. Big mistake. Wild they haven’t cut all the metaverse people yet. Those people drove meta into the ground with their whimsical weird imaginations

@pmddomingos Chinese cockroach mentality

@pmddomingos It’s all on Zuck for staking his companies reputation on him. Wouldn’t touch Meta with a long pole.

@pmddomingos Pulling 30-40% of engineers from ads and growth teams and moving them into a data labeling sweatshop is next level genius I didn’t expect

@pmddomingos AGI is possible (unless you think humans are made of magic). The road to it is not more labeled data. The article mentions they still have the duffus who made the metaverse. An 80 billion dollar failed video game. Morons at the helm.

@pmddomingos I don't understand they invest hundreds of billions in AI. They don't need all that to serve ads. The AI enterprise and consumer markets are taken by mean rivals. Free models is where China beats them.

@jud1th_c @pmddomingos I actually love it. None or these managers ever added much value except get in the way

@pmddomingos Live shot of a meta zoom meeting

@pmddomingos I can't wait for meta to collapse. social media is a addictive drug and a destructive force for evil.

@pmddomingos More like a Chinese sweatshop seeing adidas shoes

@pmddomingos Good. More productivity. Otherwise, stay at home and work 2 hours a day like COVID time.
@pmddomingos zuck's ai factory is soul crushing. makes total sense.

@pmddomingos Scale AI wasn't really like this, though. The work was pretty fun. People burned out hard but it wasn't because it wasn't interesting. Almost everyone was early career and then went on to awesome jobs later. Alex gave everyone a massive exit. Scale was fine.

@pmddomingos The truth is most white collar jobs are obsolete. Most mediocre employees are obsolete