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Meta forced engineers into AI training. Now it's giving some a way out(businessinsider.com)

9 points·by samaysharma·vor 19 Tagen·4 comments
businessinsider.com
Meta forced engineers into AI training. Now it's giving some a way out

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-lets-engineers-leave-ai-training-unit-after-mass-reassignment-2026-6

4 comments

qsxfthnkp2322·vor 19 Tagen
Wang should be ceo. Zuck ruined enough lives.
alex_duf·vor 18 Tagen
I think this is a misconception of how businesses are working. Maybe one person Vs another would yield a slightly different trajectory, but fundamentally, if you want to see why a leader takes X or Y decision, you have to look at what are the incentives.

Meta has a lot of personal data, what are the incentives? Selling it, use it to train AI, sell products to capture more data.
qsxfthnkp2322·vor 18 Tagen
Oh man. Plenty of companies exist out there and care about their end users and respect their privacy

They could have for sure chosen an alternative path instead of fucking everyone by knowing who you are better than yourself and selling that information to anyone with a dollar and making everyone addicted to social media and soon gambling
alex_duf·vor 15 Tagen
definitely, and I'm glad there are company that do! but they only exist because they have an incentive to do so: a crowd ready to pay for it.