Sources detail frustration inside Meta's Applied AI team, formed in March to support Superintelligence Labs, over menial projects, “soul-crushing” work, more
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta's chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
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
i will say the mark memo hints at a level of existentialism that he/meta seems to be reckoning with which i think will just be fundamentally out of sync with where rank and file come from i.e. steward of employees vs steward of Meta the entity quote from mark memo, per sources [i…
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
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/...
NEW: “It's literally the gulag.” A Meta engineer describes their job in the new 6,500-person “Applied AI” unit, where highly-paid Silicon Valley talent are now “draftees” forced to write puzzle problems to feed the beast. — WIRED's inside the morale collapse:
NEW: Meta's AI strategy is ripping the company to shreds — and the tea is piping hot! — Among the many scoops in this story, someone interrupted an internal Meta call this week to describe a company exec as “a piece of shit.”
Almost too many scoops to count in this story about how badly things are going at Meta's new AI unit. from @peard33.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social