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Meta's Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe: "It's literally the gulag." (futurism.com)
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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 76 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Zuckerberg is only able to build his nation-consuming spyware because they willingly take his money,” one user commented on Wired‘s reporting. “Now all of the sudden they’re persecuted because they’re being mildly inconvenienced while constructing his slop empire? Give me a break.”

“So these employees were fine with creating soul crushing AI that would be forced on other workers at other companies or that would take their jobs,” another user wrote, “as long as they felt the work was challenging in the process?”

They do have a point.

At a certain point, you have to ask yourself if the work you're doing is something you should keep doing.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 55 points 2 days ago

I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I’m actually a really good person.

Let me give you an example...

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person