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Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but usually folks tweak to paraphrase, instead of lopping off. I'd have gone with "Meta employees up in arms over mandatory program to train AI on their keystrokes".

You can squeeze it into half that length with, "Meta staff fury at Big Brother AI scheme"

"Meta staff angry at AI"

Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

#62

If 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.

Exactly. Meta spent 15 years mining user data and now mines its own staff to build the agents that'll replace them. If you're still there complaining about privacy, you're not the victim rahter the training set

Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

#63
I understand the schadenfreude people are feeling here. It certainly feels like a fitting outcome for people who work for a company with the morals of Meta.

But I hope they successfully push back against it. I don’t want this kind of behavior normalized.

Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

#65

If 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.

> you should really quit your job

Stop blaming the working class. We need jobs to pay our bills. Regulate capital, force them to follow the law, force them to be ethical, and use all the force of the state for doing so.

To blame employees for the capital behavior is absurd and solves nothing. Put the high up decision makers in prison. Punish the real criminals and we will get back our privacy and our rights.

Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't exactly a surplus of jobs today. While some may have this option, many do not.

That argument doesn't really fly for some of the most highly paid people in the world with at least one really big name on their CVs. Everyone working at Meta has more options than almost anyone else.

Exactly, these are highly-paid professionals with very broadly applicable skills. They have the means to uphold professional values.

Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

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People 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.

Layoffs don't happen the same way they do in the US, at least in Germany. It's expensive to lay someone off due to dual-party notice period requirements. "At will" is a foreign concept here.

Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

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post #65

If 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.

> you should really quit your job Stop blaming the working class. We need jobs to pay our bills. Regulate capital, force them to follow the law, force them to be ethical, and use all the force of the state for doing so. To blame employees for the capital behavior is absurd and solves nothing. Put the high up decision makers in prison. Punish the real criminals and we will get back our privacy and our rights.

Stop using bills as an excuse to be on the wrong side of history. Were the nazi soldiers innocent for gassing jews? Or were they also just "following the law"?

Being ethical is hard, but it's not an excuse. Yes, I judge people that work for FAANG, I judge colleagues for extensively rely on LLMs, and Big Corps for that matter.

> Regulate capital

How? Oh, right, by not using these products or working for the mentioned companies.

It's so easy to shift blame on other's and mark it as "not my problem lol"

Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

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post #65

If 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.

> you should really quit your job Stop blaming the working class. We need jobs to pay our bills. Regulate capital, force them to follow the law, force them to be ethical, and use all the force of the state for doing so. To blame employees for the capital behavior is absurd and solves nothing. Put the high up decision makers in prison. Punish the real criminals and we will get back our privacy and our rights.

Several reports say even a mid-ranked engineer at Meta can earn $200k in salary and another $100k in stock and bonus, every year. And that's not some rare, mega-senior E8 architect either.

Is there any point where a person stops being working class? Can I be chauffeur-driven to the opera in my gold-plated Lamborghini and still call myself working class?

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