TechCrunch: Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it Meta’s newly formed Applied AI unit — roughly 6,500 employees “drafted” with no real choice — generates puzzles and coding problems to train models, and many call the work a “gulag” and soul-crushing. Wired reports simmering rage, including a livestreamed meltdown at a […]
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