TELL HIM HE'S

Tell him he's a piece of shit. That's what a Meta employee said live on a call of thousands of co-workers about one of Zuckerberg's top AI executives. There's something really weird going on at Meta. Zuckerberg decides that all in on AI, right? That, he needs people. He needs talented people. So what does he do? He takes sixty-five hundred engineers. These are top-notch engineers, right? Who are building products that billions of people would use every single day. I mean, they're and then just moves them into this new unit called Applied AI. They found out through an email. And you either join the new unit or you pack your bags. And what are they doing at, you may ask? Which again, these are highly paid engineers. Their whole new job is to write coding puzzles. You gotta write two of them every week. So they're not building anything. They're writing little problems to help train an AI models. This is the while they're doing that, Meta is collecting every single action. Key strokes, their mouse clicks, screen activities, the damn scroll bar. I mean, everything. All of it is getting collected. So over 1600 employees signed a petition just to get it stopped. Teams started calling it the Employee Data Extraction Factory. About that for a second, right? You got drafted into a job you didn't ask for. You're doing work that feels completely pointless, and the whole the company is watching every single thing you do on your computer to train an AI that will most certainly replace you. "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 working here literally feels like the gulag. You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden." So what does Zuckerberg do to calm things down? A hackathon in July. Oh, and pizza and an award at the end. The business is making $56 billion a quarter, by the way. Meta. Follow, and I'll keep you posted.