Meta surveils their own employees

Via slashdot. The news of the layoffs themselves aren’t that interesting, but the most interesting part was the news about them recording their employees to train their models. There’s more about this here, overall I think while I wouldn’t like to work somewhere where I’d be recorded for the entire day, for the purposes of replacing me no less, it is in interesting approach to gathering data. Overall though it feels that Meta is losing the AI race. Despite Llama being one of the first open-weight LLMs to gain a lot of mindshare, they’ve sort of stagnated. ...

May 19, 2026 · Amitav Krishna

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February 1, 2024 · Amitav Krishna