‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data
It takes a particular kind of dysfunction for an employee to hijack a company-wide livestream and demand the hosts pass a message to a senior executive: that he is, in not so many words, garbage.
That happened inside Meta this month. According to a recording heard by WIRED, the outburst, on a call open to thousands of staff, was not really about one executive. It was the loudest signal yet of how badly things have soured inside Applied AI, the roughly 6,500-person unit Mark Zuckerberg built in March to power his most expensive bet in artificial intelligence.
“It’s literally the gulag,” one employee told WIRED. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden.”
The $14.3bn bet, and the machinery behind it
That bet has a name: Alexandr Wang. Last summer, Meta paid $14.3bn for a 49 per cent stake in Wang’s data-labelling startup, Scale AI, and installed the...
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