Comment on Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
“The pace of what we are building is unprecedented, and these are exactly the kind of challenges that define what we do best.”
What is it that you do best though? What do you sell?
Moving 1000 engineers to a “data labeling team” and calling it applied AI basically seems like demoting 1000 engineers to non-engineering roles, I’d be insulted but people working for Meta in 2026 probably don’t have a lot of pride to lose. Seems like most AI companies outsource the labelling stuff so I wonder how Meta is justifying paying people engineering salaries to do it.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
There are ways to label data that aren’t just humans selecting from a word list. The quality of that labeling is then dependent on the quality of the process you use to create it, but that can be good enough that it has value. Sometimes it’s just starting from a known good/easy label and tracking the thing it’s attached to forward or backward in a video.