Meta announced a workforce reduction of about 10 percent, affecting nearly 8,000 employees and closing about 6,000 open positions. The company did not identify who would be laid off, instead providing a specific date roughly four weeks in advance, creating a prolonged period of uncertainty for employees. The stated reason was that the information had leaked. Leaked audio from an all-hands meeting revealed that Meta’s AI models were being trained by observing the same employees who were later targeted for layoffs. The training method was described as employee device tracking, and Zuckerberg characterized the approach as improving AI capabilities by learning from watching skilled people perform tasks.
"Zuckerberg responded by explaining "what makes these AI models great." After some inane rambling he says, "So we're in a phase where basically the AI models learn from having real, from watching really smart people do things." So presumably not him. He continued, "And if you're trying to get it to be able to to be able to do certain capabilities, having it be able to observe real""
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