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https://preview.redd.it/sv7v4xmpvf2h1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=7ad35ea2d2d03f3bac1a8d16e04d5905de3679ef So Mark Zuckerberg admitted during a staff meeting that Meta was actively training their internal AI models on the work of people they were already planning to fire. A leaked audio recording published by More Perfect Union on Wednesday ended up perfectly coinciding with the actual start of them letting 7,800 people go. Back in April Meta made it official that they were cutting 10% of their workforce. They gave the staff a one month notice period but kept the names of who was actually getting the axe a secret until the last minute. In the leaked tape Zuckerberg goes into detail about how they decided to skip hiring outside contractors to save cash. Instead they just used the expertise of their own highly skilled employees to feed the models. His reasoning was that Meta employees have a much higher average intelligence than standard contractors anyway. Because of that, having the models learn to write code by directly observing the company’s own engineers every day was way faster and more effective than other industry alternatives. Seeing major tech companies train next gen AI systems on the data and skills of their own workforce is a pretty clear indicator of current strategies. It points directly at them slashing operating costs and actively working to replace human roles with artificial intelligence. submitted by /u/andrewaltair

Originally posted by u/andrewaltair on r/ArtificialInteligence