Is 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?
Cunning plan to collect more LLM training data ;)
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Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#52People are always keen on criticizing the EU and their regulations, but employees in EU are protected from these kinds of stunts. And also from the upcoming (rumored) layoffs which won't be nearly as cruel.
Layoffs in EU happen all the same, they are just sprinkled throughout the fiscal year to avoid legal disputes due to the number of people let go.
> happen all the same
No. They happen, but with a significant difference
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
The shit sandwich is the sneaky idea that any "subsection of humanity" should dictate anything. Weirdly it's always a subsection that the speaker happens to be in or be friends with. I don't know about you but I know I don't want that shit sandwich.
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#54If 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.
Of course quitting can be in the cards, but I'd much rather see a successful pushback from meta employees against this new policy; maybe this could be a good cause to form a union over.
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#55Very 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
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#56People are always keen on criticizing the EU and their regulations, but employees in EU are protected from these kinds of stunts. And also from the upcoming (rumored) layoffs which won't be nearly as cruel.
Layoffs in EU happen all the same, they are just sprinkled throughout the fiscal year to avoid legal disputes due to the number of people let go.
Obviously it happens but I think you’ll have a hard time arguing that worker rights are as bad in the EU as in the US.
ITUC Global Rights Index (2025)
Europe: 2.78 Nordics: 1.0–1.2 Western Europe: 2.0–2.3
Americas: 3.68 United States: 4
I couldn’t find per state US numbers but the difference is obviously huge.
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
The shit sandwich is the sneaky idea that any "subsection of humanity" should dictate anything. Weirdly it's always a subsection that the speaker happens to be in or be friends with. I don't know about you but I know I don't want that shit sandwich.
Historically, that’s what tends to happen. When it does, harm reduction is wise.
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#58Is 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?
> Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their...
tolerance for abuse.
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Yes. It's worth pointing out that the Cambridge Analytica scandal was in 2016 - that's 10 years ago! At that point, FB resp. Zuckerberg already had a bad reputation.
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#60They 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?