Meta’s chaotic AI strategy (wired.com)

Sounds like the Metaverse is moving right along according to plan.

I wish these losers the worst. Working for zuck is its own reward.

Birds of a feather flock together.

My management (not Meta) is choosing to bribe people to complete their 'mandated' training. I suppose I shouldn't be so torn up, could clearly be worse.

It sounds like these people would otherwise be laid off if they were not parked in this department instead. I imagine they are quite unhappy, but getting paid 200k+ to do tasks that are usually gig work is hardly the most heart wrenching story in this tech market.

So they "draft" their own workers to create toy examples to train/evaluate LLAMA performance? Is this a temporary role/rotation? That seems goofy.

Is the child they hired for 250 million dollars still there?

It feels like, when the history of Facebook is written, it will be clear that the company destroyed itself.

Stop glamorizing the grind and start glamorizing whatever this is.

We just came out of a period in which solving CRUD apps and cat pictures at high scale chose winners of the whole economy. Now we're in a big mess with them thinking they're capable of doing much more difficult things.

“I joined this fine company to help accelerate the destruction of society, and now instead I’m expected to help it destroy society in a _different way_ by creating puzzles for AI. Now my morale is low. Poor me. “

This alone should keep anyone away from using React.

> “It's literally the gulag,” one of the employees claims. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week."

May I be blessed with a life so comfortable that I would be able to complain in such a way.

They should rotate all employees between divisions.

When done creating AI puzzles they can enjoy a stint in the Content Review team.

TBT to one of the best comments about the Meta situation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881678

For real, though. Why in the fuck do you still work at Facebook? Just quit.

Soul-crushing work for a soul-crushing company. Hard to feel much sympathy.

funny when they're being dog food their product suddenly it's not cool, woe is me. u reap what u sow facebookers!

> It's literally the gulag,” one of the employees claims. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week." Another employee describes some of the tasks—generating puzzles to test how reliably AI models from Meta and other companies can solve them—as easy compared to the software development work they had been doing previously. But the new projects feel menial, and “almost all” employees seem unhappy, they say. “Most people find the work soul-crushing,” the third employee says.

Then quit your fucking jobs you entitled assholes. You’d be shocked how many people would gladly do that for $300k/year.

So basically they built an in-house version of Mercor, the sleazy company that hires desperate people on a freelancer basis to train LLMs so they can be replaced.

"We don't know what it is so it must be art."