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wired.com‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total MessExecutives and employees alike are struggling with Meta’s chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.

Well, for one, life at the newly assembled Applied AI team is “literally the gulag”, one anonymous employee told WIRED. Sudden isolation and drudgework tasks are dragging morale to a record low. /3

wired.comA Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration AgentsColleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.

Recent mass layoffs at Meta have done little to lift spirits. According to communications seen by WIRED, one former employee who lost their job in May was reportedly detained by ICE in recent days. Meta’s response? No comment. /4

wired.comMeta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon“I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore,” one employee posted in a forum open to the entire staff.

No wonder then that Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement last Friday for a companywide AI hackathon wasn’t warmly received within Meta’s thinning ranks. /5