{"id":692983,"date":"2026-05-25T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692983\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:56:09","slug":"zuckerberg-boasts-he-exploited-staff-for-ai-training-before-firings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692983\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Boasts He Exploited Staff For AI Training Before Firings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know if you heard the news, but Mark Zuckerberg is a real piece of shit. One of many recent examples is the news from\u00a0Futurism<\/a> that the dead-eyed Meta CEO boasted to his employees that their intelligence and elite skills were unknowingly being used to train his AI model at the same time as they waited to learn if they\u2019d be one of the 8,000 laid off<\/a> from the company.<\/p>\n

On April 23, Meta announced it would be firing 10 percent of its workforce. But not who, and not right away\u2014no, in four weeks time. In what employees called<\/a> \u201c28 days of hell,\u201d Zuckerberg\u2014for some sadistic reason\u2014announced the date on which one in ten Meta staff would learn they were unemployed, and it was a full month in advance. This let the entire staff sit in excruciating misery as the clock ticked down to May 20, none knowing if they had a job. The reason given was because \u201cthe news had already leaked<\/a>,\u201d and the company added it would not only affect almost 8,000 staff but also close down 6,000 open positions. And why? Because Meta\u2019s ill-fated focus on AI is costing far more than it can afford.<\/p>\n

That was cruel enough, but what we now know thanks to leaked audio from More Perfect Union<\/a> is that on April 30, one week into this torture, barely-functioning human-like automaton Zuckerberg gave an all-hands meeting in which he boasted that Meta\u2019s AI models were being trained on observing the same staff he was about to fire.<\/p>\n

Called \u201cemployee device tracking,\u201d the tech was already causing a fair amount of confusion and upset among staff, and the topic was raised at this meeting. Zuckerberg responded by explaining \u201cwhat makes these AI models great.\u201d After some inane rambling he says, \u201cSo we\u2019re in a phase where basically the AI models learn from having real, from watching really smart people do things.\u201d So presumably not him. He continued,<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re trying to get it to be able to to be able to do certain capabilities, having it be able to observe really smart people doing those things is, is very important.<\/p>\n

Such wit, such wisdom, such leadership.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve transcribed the rest verbatim because I think any summarizing or paraphrasing doesn\u2019t do justice to the hateful level of awful that comes next.<\/p>\n

So there are a few examples of where we\u2019re trying to do this across the company because one, um, one basic insight and hypothesis that we have is that a lot of data generation across the field is done by these like contract companies\u2026 But, um, in general, the average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks if you\u2019re working through the contract, um, through these contractors. So if we\u2019re trying to teach the models coding, for example, then having people internally, um, build tools that, or, or solve tasks that, um, help teach the model how to code, we think is going to [sic] dramatically increase our models\u2019 coding ability faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do who don\u2019t have thousands and thousands of extremely strong engineers at their company.<\/p>\n

This is just half of the reply, which then descends into far less coherent burbling about how the AI can learn \u201chow smart people use computers.\u201d It\u2019s no less tone deaf or spiteful, however, as he so blandly explains how brilliant his staff are, and how vital their skills are for training his AI, moments before firing thousands of them.<\/p>\n

LEAKED AUDIO: In an all-hands meeting on April 30, Mark Zuckerberg tells employees that he’s training AI on them ahead of mass layoffs.<\/p>\n

“The AI models learn from watching really smart people do things\u2026 The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/lt9eeJ3cwh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Zuckerberg\u2019s response shows no understanding at all that this is being spoken of in the direct context of the wave of mass firings that is still to come, to a staff among whom none knows if they are keeping their job, and in response to a question that began, \u201cI know layoffs are top of mind,\u201d before getting into the spying on employees that Zucks later admits he should probably have \u201cbetter communicated\u201d to staff.<\/p>\n

To be told, \u201cYeah, no, we\u2019re basically using you to train our evil robot that\u2019s taking your jobs,\u201d must have been beyond galling. As coders and engineers all around the world are having their jobs taken by AIs trained on their own work uploaded in good faith to sites like Github, to just openly announce you\u2019re doing it but specifically targeting your own individual employees in the weeks before you fire them is utterly vile.<\/p>\n

Meta pit <\/p>\n

Come May 20\u00a0those sackings took place, and for a bonus as the\u00a0NYT reports<\/a>, a further 7,000 learned they were being reassigned to \u201cnew AI initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Staff learned their fates in a time-zone ripple around the world, and U.S. staff were told to work from home for the rest of the week, presumably to prevent an all-out mutiny. That didn\u2019t stop a few employees heading into the office to scavenge useful items like laptop chargers and snacks in case they were about to learn their keycards would no longer work. The\u00a0NYT adds that office walls still featured flyers petitioning<\/a> against the \u201cemployee device tracking.\u201d<\/p>\n

And worst of all, it\u2019s all for folly. This is just the latest myopic preoccupation of Zuckerberg\u2019s as he yet again pivots what was once called Facebook toward his latest, futile obsession. Once we were told that VR was the future of the company, and all funding went toward developing now-discontinued Oculus headsets. Next came the woefully embarrassing embracing of web 3.0, and the multi-billion money pit that was the Metaverse, an obviously doomed idea that Zuckerberg was so obsessed with that he renamed the company. Now it\u2019s AI, the unwanted and un-useful predictive text engines that are wiping out the jobs Facebook was built on, all in Zuckerberg\u2019s deranged vision of building a \u201csuperintelligence.\u201d He intends to spend between $125 billion and 145 billion on this delusion, and when it doesn\u2019t come to be it\u2019ll be more Meta staff\u2019s jobs that pay the price.<\/p>\n

But presumably before they go, Zuckerberg will make sure to drain their blood for the giant cyborg he\u2019s building that\u2019ll protect the Earth from incoming alien invasions.<\/p>\n