Welcome to another day of corporate America hemorrhaging engineers and other white-collar workers with insurmountable student debt as AI adoption accelerates. This era will likely be remembered in history as the great “white-collar purge,” and the response will be continued hatred of data centers.
We’ve been covering for weeks that today is D-Day for Meta Platforms employees, who have finally learned their employment fate at the company that owns Facebook and Instagram.
Bloomberg reports that the new round of layoffs affects roughly 8,000 roles globally, with engineering and product teams expected to be at the center of the cuts as CEO Mark Zuckerberg reduces labor in favor of GPUs.
This latest round of cuts is expected to hit Meta’s engineering and product teams in particular, and additional layoffs could come later in the year, said people familiar with the company’s plans, who asked not to be named as the information is not public. -BBG
The layoffs follow Meta’s reassignment of about 7,000 employees into newly created AI-focused teams on Monday.
The X account,Official Layoff, posted leaked audio of an all-hands emergency at Meta earlier this week, in which Zuck told employees their devices are being tracked to train AI models. In other words, those workers are training chatbots to eventually render them obsolete.
Official Layoff added more color about Monday’s meeting:
LEAKED AUDIO FROM META ALL-HANDS AHEAD OF LAYOFFS TOMORROW
Mark Zuckerberg, in his own words, told Meta employees their devices are being tracked to train AI models.
His reasoning? Meta employees are smarter than the contract workers the rest of the industry uses for data labeling. So instead of hiring outside help, Meta is turning its own workforce into training data.
“The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks if you’re working through these contractors.”
He wants the AI to learn how “really smart people use computers” by watching employees work. He says the content is “stripped out” and none of it is used for surveillance or performance tracking.
Then he admitted the rollout was botched but said Meta intentionally kept employees in the dark because leaking competitive AI strategy would help rivals.
“It is not strategically in your interest for us to communicate everything in all the detail that we normally would on this.”
Translation: We’re watching you, we told you as little as possible, and we did it on purpose.
AI is replacing the contractor. Then the employee trains the AI. Then the AI replaces the employee.
This story and this company keeps getting weirder.
LEAKED AUDIO FROM META ALL-HANDS AHEAD OF LAYOFFS TOMORROW
Mark Zuckerberg, in his own words, told Meta employees their devices are being tracked to train AI models.
Goldman laid out in 2023 just how many jobs AI will take. That number is absolutely scary for white-collar America, where many are saturated with student debt.
Fighting globalism while supporting globalists?
That’s a special kind of stupid.
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Oh Zuck. Isn’t he a clever Jew?
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Hitler was right.
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gd right
These people are so smart they don’t even realize that those that used to support them have turned on them or will soon turn on them. They haven’t learned a thing since WW2. They are so impressed with their own perceived intelligence and greatness that they are too ignorant to realize that people have vast researches where they can see videos and reports of them telling you exactly what they think of people who aren’t members of their tribe. The cows and horses aren’t even on the ranch let alone in the barn. They are done for and the majority of the world sees them for the pariah they always have been. It’s so bad now they are likely to be extinct by their own hand within fifty years. Pride comes before the fall.
Excellent news. I’m glad Facebook employees have lost their job.
Hopefully AI will screw up the company as well and they won’t realise what a mistake AI was until it’s too late to reverse.
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Can’t say I feel too bad. Got deplatformed due to a malicious bot/human who took over business page and ad account.
And FB could not ever figure it out. Nor correctly restore.
I didn’t necessarily blow 100k on advertising. But the lost revenues afterwards caused me to get another
job. Thus, those let off can now do the same.
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screw zuckerheim
Fighting globalism while supporting globalists?
That’s a special kind of stupid.
Oh Zuck. Isn’t he a clever Jew?
Hitler was right.
gd right
These people are so smart they don’t even realize that those that used to support them have turned on them or will soon turn on them. They haven’t learned a thing since WW2. They are so impressed with their own perceived intelligence and greatness that they are too ignorant to realize that people have vast researches where they can see videos and reports of them telling you exactly what they think of people who aren’t members of their tribe. The cows and horses aren’t even on the ranch let alone in the barn. They are done for and the majority of the world sees them for the pariah they always have been. It’s so bad now they are likely to be extinct by their own hand within fifty years. Pride comes before the fall.
Excellent news. I’m glad Facebook employees have lost their job.
Hopefully AI will screw up the company as well and they won’t realise what a mistake AI was until it’s too late to reverse.
Can’t say I feel too bad. Got deplatformed due to a malicious bot/human who took over business page and ad account.
And FB could not ever figure it out. Nor correctly restore.
I didn’t necessarily blow 100k on advertising. But the lost revenues afterwards caused me to get another
job. Thus, those let off can now do the same.