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Posted by latein 5 hours ago

Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their(www.businessinsider.com)
93 points | 72 commentspage 2
spprashant 2 hours ago|
They are trying so hard to make AI do human jobs instead of focussing on opportunities where AI is special suited. Do you really want your super intelligent token muncher to be clicking browser tabs all day?
anygivnthursday 3 hours ago||
This is just v1, next release might add eye movement, pulse and brain wave tracking to train ZuckNet.
throw0101a 3 hours ago||
Now over ten years old (2015-10-16):

> 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

* https://twitter.com/Cavalorn/status/654934442549620736

Havoc 3 hours ago||
Very little sympathy frankly.

Half the big tech world is economically built on mass scale invasive unwanted tracking & adtech. If it goes up in flames from internal tension about invasive tracking that's just karma

spacechild1 3 hours ago||
Nice. Let them taste some of their own medicine.
chrisjj 3 hours ago||
Required reading: The Circle by Dave Eggers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
keybored 4 hours ago||
I don’t care about Schadenfreude. It’s good that they are making a stink.

I would bang my head against the wall if they either didn’t make a stink or publicly said that, of course the Company is going to monitor me, it’s their hardware[1] and who am I to be anything but a vessel for my employer on Company time etc.

[1] As seen in the comments on the large thread about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948

thedevilslawyer 4 hours ago||
Schadenfreude is exactly what's needed here. The rallying words can be for another set of people/org.
zelphirkalt 4 hours ago|||
You are (hopefully) a human being firstly, and only in some later capacity "a vessel for my employer on Company time". It would do the world some good, if more people remembered, that they are working with people and their decisions affect people.
keybored 1 hour ago||
I cannot understand how in normative terms someone ought to be merely a vessel for someone in any capacity, ever. There are things you cannot do to someone and certain things you as an individual cannot sign away. That’s what “human rights” and similar frameworks are supposed to be about anyway.
keybored 3 hours ago||
Speaking about Meta employees. There was this anecdote from a month ago:

> very few facebook employees use their products outside of testing, which is a big contributor to that fear - they just can't believe that there are billions of people who would continue to use apps to post what they had for lunch!

> And as a result of that lack of faith, most of them believe that Meta is a bubble and can burst at any point. Consequently, everyone works for the next performance review cycle, and most are just in rush to capture as much money as they could before that bubble bursts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409649

LightBug1 3 hours ago||
The most exquisite form of karma.
shevy-java 4 hours ago||
It is in a way some kind of modern day slavery. Of course they can always decide to quit, but what if the next company uses the same sniffing strategy? On youtube you can see video clips of indians wearing various glasses to monitor their own manual work procedures. AI has truly become our new overlord, controlled by a few huge companies.
nicman23 4 hours ago|
lol what. you are getting paying it is not slavery
zelphirkalt 4 hours ago||
Some people are forced to work in places, which are dehumanizing through work conditions, whether you get paid for it or not doesn't necessarily tell you much. Of course this is not the case for Mete employees, who should have an easy time finding other employment. But these trends are not limited to Meta. They might find application in some shithole of a badly paid job somewhere, where people have only the choice between living poorly in some slums, or serving their local tech overlord.
andrewstuart 5 hours ago|
The company is run by lizards in hoodies.
loloquwowndueo 3 hours ago|
Now now don’t be mean to lizards