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Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable

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www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/technology/meta-ai-employees-miserable.html?campaign_id=158&emc=edit_ot_20260511&instance_id=175420&nl=on-tech&regi_id=75310305&segment_id=219703&user_id=c383821527c441214d07ce6e4a6ba12a

What employees typed into their computer, how they moved their mouse, where they clicked and what they saw on their screen would be tracked, Meta said. The goal, the company said, was to capture employee data so Meta’s artificial intelligence models could learn “how people actually complete everyday tasks using computers.”

Many workers immediately revolted. In online comments, they blasted the tracking as a privacy violation, calling it antisocial and callous.

“This makes me super uncomfortable,” an engineering manager wrote in a comment in response to the announcement, which was reviewed by The New York Times. “How do we opt out?”

Meta also introduced internal dashboards to track employees’ consumption of “tokens,” a unit of A.I. use that is roughly equivalent to four characters of text, four people said. Some said the dashboards were a pressure tactic to encourage competition with colleagues. That led some employees to make so many A.I. agents that others had to introduce agents to find agents, and agents to rate agents, two people said.

Meta has hinted at more changes. “We don’t really know what the optimal size of the company will be in the future,” Susan Li, the chief financial officer, said during a call with investors last week. “I think there’s a lot of change right now, with A.I. capabilities advancing rapidly.”
 
Shoganai said:
They chose to work at Meta ... one of the worst companies on planet earth. I'm not sure why this is shocking to them.
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Exactly. Meta is arguably the worst privacy invading company on the planet - why would you be surprised? Were they thinking they were part of the "rules for thee, not for me" chosen ones? Hah! That only applies to the man at the top, who builds walls for privacy and kicks people off his Hawaiian plantation.
 
I'm just glad we have multiple companies with what seem to be workable AI models. If one company totally won we'd be looking at a whole lot of hell probably followed by a Sherman Act breakup ala Bell Telephone. Hopefully it ends up more like the mobile phone business where we have 3+ competitors.
 
Not at Meta but another big tech. I love how AI has transformed my work. Burning through roughly $200 worth of tokens each day but I am 10x more productive. Analytics, code issues, data generation, even process improvements—all 10x to 100x faster.
 
sphinx99 said:
Not at Meta but another big tech. I love how AI has transformed my work. Burning through roughly $200 worth of tokens each day but I am 10x more productive. Analytics, code issues, data generation, even process improvements—all 10x to 100x faster.
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Yeah, AI is just another tool. It can be extremely helpful if you use it right, but it may not always be useful for what you're doing. It can also be destructive if you use it wrong just like any other tool.


The last place I worked they were really pushing us to use AI. I already had been. But the bad developers just ended up using AI to write bad code faster.

It's kind of sad because I made an amazing website, insanely fast, awesome UX, fully responsive, took advantage of 4k screens and still worked great on a phone, fully automated end to end tests that would record videos and take screen shots, etc.
I talked to a friend that still works there, it didn't take them long to ruin it.
 
I am sure the stock holders are happy... Man am I happy I left my company after 26 years when it was bought by a publicly held company.

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I wonder if I could trick AI into thinking browsing H and making memes is good for the company.
 
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CaffeineMan said:
I am sure the stock holders are happy... Man am I happy I left my company after 26 years when it was bought by a publicly held company.

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I wonder if I could trick AI into thinking browsing H and making memes is good for the company.
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You know, even some conservatives are starting to talk about how maybe AI should be nationalized in order to protect the citizenry...

It's a weird time we live in.
 
A few years ago when the Ai thing started I was like o cool...... Now I think stuff like this is what all those data centers are for they want to track everything we do in real time. And it's not going to end well for us common man.
 
sharknice said:
Yeah, AI is just another tool. It can be extremely helpful if you use it right, but it may not always be useful for what you're doing. It can also be destructive if you use it wrong just like any other tool.


The last place I worked they were really pushing us to use AI. I already had been. But the bad developers just ended up using AI to write bad code faster.

It's kind of sad because I made an amazing website, insanely fast, awesome UX, fully responsive, took advantage of 4k screens and still worked great on a phone, fully automated end to end tests that would record videos and take screen shots, etc.
I talked to a friend that still works there, it didn't take them long to ruin it.
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Yeah it’s just another tool. And like all tools, some can learn to use it effectively and others will hurt themselves. The same people who mess things up with AI would lose a limb if handed a chainsaw or a finger if handed a bandsaw.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
You know, even some conservatives are starting to talk about how maybe AI should be nationalized in order to protect the citizenry...

It's a weird time we live in.
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I was just thinking how it wasn’t that long ago that Elon Musk was fully supportive of the Yang Gang and government funded universal income. Four years later he’s tearing down government because it spends too much. Who know where we’ll be in another few years.
 
sphinx99 said:
I was just thinking how it wasn’t that long ago that Elon Musk was fully supportive of the Yang Gang and government funded universal income. Four years later he’s tearing down government because it spends too much. Who know where we’ll be in another few years.
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What they say in public and what they believe are usually nowhere near the same thing. They just say what they say to make themselves more money. Elon only wanted into the government to get data and secure contracts for his companies. I doubt he gives a flying frig about government waste. His big beef is more of that government money going to him. He's lobbying just like the rest of them to line his own pockets. Government spending only becomes "waste" to these people when it isn't directed at them.
 
Ididar said:
What they say in public and what they believe are usually nowhere near the same thing. They just say what they say to make themselves more money. Elon only wanted into the government to get data and secure contracts for his companies. I doubt he gives a flying frig about government waste. His big beef is more of that government money going to him. He's lobbying just like the rest of them to line his own pockets. Government spending only becomes "waste" to these people when it isn't directed at them.
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It seems like their is a pattern to the ultra rich, the more public they are the more apparent it is. I used to work with a big Warren Buffet fan, he would watch Buffet speeches and quote him all the time, his favorite "my secretary pays more taxes than I do, and it isn't right"
Then when it is real money on the line, Buffet's Railroad tried to have the government break a strike.
"BNSF has urged Congress to intervene and force rail workers to accept a contract with no paid sick days, something Senate Republicans tried to do via the unanimous consent process in mid-September. Sanders, the chair of the Senate Budget Committee, blocked the GOP legislation, allowing the collective bargaining process to continue."

My point is follow the money/power. Use the logic they want more for a chance to knowing what is going on.
 
sphinx99 said:
Not at Meta but another big tech. I love how AI has transformed my work. Burning through roughly $200 worth of tokens each day but I am 10x more productive. Analytics, code issues, data generation, even process improvements—all 10x to 100x faster.
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So you're getting paid 10x-100x more?
 
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The AI token quota metrics have resulted in expected but still absurd gaming. Saw a thread the other day where the comments were saying they set up endless loops for agents to burn through tokens by completing pointless tasks.

If the goal of the usage is to train models to replace the employees then it makes a bit of sense but if the goal is making them more productive by merely measuring LLM usage then it's the same thing as tying performance to number of lines committed to a codebase: it doesn't represent the outcome well and is similarly gamed.
 
myzz said:
So you're getting paid 10x-100x more?
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Sadly no but I don’t need to work for money any longer. It’s more about the fun of solving complicated problems these days. And these tools let me solve more and more complicated problems.
 
philb2 said:
Meta also introduced internal dashboards to track employees’ consumption of “tokens,” a unit of A.I. use that is roughly equivalent to four characters of text, four people said. Some said the dashboards were a pressure tactic to encourage competition with colleagues. That led some employees to make so many A.I. agents that others had to introduce agents to find agents, and agents to rate agents, two people said.
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So do they want employees to burn more tokens (as an indication of being busy and engaged with AI) or do they want to discourage wasteful use of AI?

As the article says, deploying a few agents would take care of the former right there.
 
uOpt said:
So do they want employees to burn more tokens (as an indication of being busy and engaged with AI) or do they want to discourage wasteful use of AI?
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Classic example of "goal displacement." (Look it up.)
 
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