Meta engineer protests AI tracking amid mass layoffs
Departing software engineer David Frenk posted a viral internal video protesting Meta's aggressive pivot toward AI and recent 8,000-person layoff. The leak spotlights an internal program tracking employee workflows to train models that may eventually replace them.
This internal friction highlights the dark side of the AI boom, where developers are increasingly tasked with training their own automated replacements. The internal "Model Capability Initiative" (MCI) directly monitors worker actions to build AI training data. Meta recently cut 10% of its workforce while reassigning 7,000 others to AI training tasks. The protest underscores growing developer resentment over AI-driven restructuring amid record corporate profits.
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