Meta’s new Applied AI unit, built to power Mark Zuckerberg’s $14.3 billion bet on chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, is in open revolt. The 6,500 engineers drafted into the months-old team call the work “soul-crushing” and a “gulag,” with one hijacking a company livestream to insult an executive. Amid 8,000 layoffs and a worker-surveillance backlash, even CTO Andrew Bosworth admits Meta’s AI rollout was “atrocious.” Here’s why morale collapsed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Meta’s new Applied AI unit, built to power Mark Zuckerberg’s $14.3 billion bet on chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, is in open revolt. The 6,500 engineers drafted into the months-old team call the work “soul-crushing” and a “gulag,” with one hijacking a company livestream to insult an executive. Amid 8,000 layoffs and a worker-surveillance backlash,… Read More »Why engineers in Meta’s AI unit, built for it’s key employee, are calling it a ‘mess’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":115771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}