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Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models
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#72"Do I need to worry about potential future employers finding this?
No.
Indexing by search engines is fully suppressed by robots.txt and headers (not the company Meta, here it refer to an HTML tag). A potential employer searching your name will never see this page via search engines like Google or Bing."
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#73>Surveillance for thee but not for me...
Yeah, no thanks (or "how the turn tables")
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Workers are workers. We have so much more in common with one another than we do with the capital class. Turning against a worker because they are doing better than another worker is giving in the divide and rule. Historically, this is exactly how factory owners tried to get the white and Black workers to schism rather than unionize. Workers deserve workers rights, and we should have solidarity towards all workers.
I guess man. This kind of doesn't apply to workers who are enabling the bourgeoisie state (cops, programmers making systems to feed data to the NSA, etc.)
I ... actually agree with this. But I think we gotta deliberately select who that applies to. Is it everyone at Meta? Like, are we all culpable for our employers sins? Or are we all squeezed by a system where we gotta work to eat and the people who decide what jobs exist are the capital class?
Like, obviously cops aren't workers, but what level of culpability does a person working in Meta's disability accommodations team have? I dunno. Hard question.
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#75"Do I need to worry about potential future employers finding this? No. Indexing by search engines is fully suppressed by robots.txt and headers (not the company Meta, here it refer to an HTML tag). A potential employer searching your name will never see this page via search engines like Google or Bing."
For what it's worth, it does say right before and in colors "NOTE: Your name WILL BE VISIBLE TO THE WORLD."
I did a double take when reading that part too, but if you're a Meta employee then you should be able to understand the implications of those technical measures.
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#76Re: Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models
#77Nobody should be strong armed in to training models whose intention is replacing them.
Technology has become a societal torture device and AI is the largest power grab in history.
How dare humans be able to leverage their reasoning for a wage. To the machines I say!
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#79If I was Mark my answer would be “or what?” These people already work at a vile company. Which means they sold out already. If what mark does to other people doesn’t bother them they probably won’t have the backbone to leave if he says pound sand. “Oh it’s ok if you do it to other people just not me.” Get bent.
If this is what you get for selling out, just imagine what those of us who didn't sell out can expect? People sell out in order to get better conditions for themselves. Furthermore, this monitoring only strengthens Meta's ability to effectively surveil the rest of us.
> People sell out in order to get better conditions for themselves.
I agree in part about what you're saying but think it's more money for FAANG+ employees. Sure the conditions can be or were good but the primary motivation is financial gain and I think the proverbial employee-frog can tolerate quite a bit of increasingly hot water if paid enough.
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#80"Do I need to worry about potential future employers finding this? No. Indexing by search engines is fully suppressed by robots.txt and headers (not the company Meta, here it refer to an HTML tag). A potential employer searching your name will never see this page via search engines like Google or Bing."
"Do I need to worry about potential future employers finding this?
No.
Indexing by search engines is fully suppressed by robots.txt and headers (not the company Meta, here it refer to an HTML tag). A potential employer searching your name will never see this page via search engines like Google or Bing."
The author assumes some employees are not familiar with HTML elements and might confuse them with the name of their employer
HN commenter: "I did a double take when reading that part too, but if you're a Meta employee then you should be able to understand the implications of those technical measures."