| ▲ | Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs(reuters.com) |
| 19 points by nlpnerd 4 hours ago | 4 comments |
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| ▲ | hsb3 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Meta and the type of people who work at Meta deserve each other. |
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| ▲ | burnt-resistor an hour ago | parent [-] | | Can confirm. The average tech people I worked with there skewed towards not exactly cool, well-rounded, solidarity-aware, socially-responsible (except performatively) individuals. Didn't meet anyone technical there I'd ever want to hang out with, but I must've arrived 10 years too late. |
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| ▲ | nlpnerd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Honestly, the article title is a bit of clickbait. The main complaint is about people on medical leave being disadvantaged by the token usage as performance metric that was introduced. |
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| ▲ | YeGoblynQueenne 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | That doesn't sound like it? From the article: >> According to the complaint, Meta used a number of internal AI-assisted systems to score and rank employees on a termination list. Those included "Metamate," a large language model assistant; an employee-trained "second brain" that tracked workers' communications and documents; and a productivity score drawn from scanning keystrokes, screen content, emails and browser history, according to the lawsuit. |
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