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‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Sh*t’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess (www.wired.com)
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[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

Oof. If they’re doing what I think they’re doing that’s rough. I do some of this as a side gig. It’s one thing if it’s part time and I can drop whenever. It’s another when you’re pouring 40-50 hours into nothing but that.