Nice. Let them taste some of their own medicine.
Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
There isn't exactly a surplus of jobs today. While some may have this option, many do not.
At this point, Meta's opinion on privacy has been widely known for decades. Working for Meta is a personal choice. There is no excuse.
^ this! Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people who decide to work there make the statement that they are ok with it. Same with Palantir, X, Grok, Tesla etc
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#23So they do treat their employees like their users
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#24Small-scale imperial boomerang. You thought that you're building a privacy-destroying machine and this machine will never destroy _your_ privacy? At some point in the future, a lot of the SV techbros will be hopefully viewed as ghouls with no morals or ethics. This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. If you complain about this and don't quit your job at Meta, you'…
> This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. Interesting phrasing. So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something? Is there a reason you didn't go with > No subsection of humanity should be dictating anything and yet these techbros always do.
With all due respect to the guidelines that requires assuming good faith, this sounds like the beginning of a nirvana fallacy.
You don't have to provide a perfect solution to point out something is wrong. People who don't care about the people they lead don't make good leaders. I'd rather have leaders who hurt others by accident than on purpose.
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#25If you work for meta you shouldn't have a problem with invading the privacy of others. Of course this is not ok, but you should really quit your job if you have ethical or moral problems with that.
There isn't exactly a surplus of jobs today. While some may have this option, many do not.
Eh - if you have Meta on your resume it's not that tough out there right now.
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#26Is this like a game where we choose the next word? Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their _______ Pets? Hairstyles?
I thought it was "arms"? Although I take it that then the sentence should have ended with "theirs" and not "their"?
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#27Now 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.
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#28Is this like a game where we choose the next word? Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their _______ Pets? Hairstyles?
Coincidentally this is how pretraining works :)
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#29Small-scale imperial boomerang. You thought that you're building a privacy-destroying machine and this machine will never destroy _your_ privacy? At some point in the future, a lot of the SV techbros will be hopefully viewed as ghouls with no morals or ethics. This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. If you complain about this and don't quit your job at Meta, you'…
> This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. Interesting phrasing. So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something? Is there a reason you didn't go with > No subsection of humanity should be dictating anything and yet these techbros always do.
> So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something?
"Here's your shit sandwich."
"I don't want a shit sandwich!"
I don't have to know what I do want to eat to decline the shit sandwich.
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#30I 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=4785194…
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.