"Look, if I'd laid him off because he took sick leave, that would be illegal, but I didn't lay him off because he took sick leave, I laid him off because AI told me to lay him off. And AI is smart. You can't tell me it wasn't a good decision."

Repeat across the entire economy

"We don't need AI to be functional - we just need it to give us answers we want and convince enough people that it's giving those answers because it's better than us."

“The AI models learn from watching really smart people do things,” Zuckerberg said in an internal meeting, according to the Information. “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.”

This guy doesn't understand anything about humans doing tasks, or generative AI.

Why would they even need AI for that?

Feels like a simple data query would have sufficed, but ok

So desperate to justify the unnecessary amount of money thrown away.

This is all I need to know.

I feel like you could just use SQL for that.

Then your compensation does not include said leave. The options are to work every day indefinitely or get fired for not showing up. Pretty sure that didn't come up during the job interviews.

,,,duh...

Not to discount the evil of targeting workers who used the leave they literally are entitled to, but it's also SO lazy to use an AI to generate a list of what's essentially just a RETURN statement from a payroll database. Boo on both counts!

Being on a slack channel for victims of another big tech company's layoffs, I can say for certain that Meta is not the only one laying off a suspiciously large number of people during maternity leave.

If these allegations are true, this isn’t AI making better decisions. It’s AI scaling discrimination. Automating layoffs doesn’t remove bias if the data or incentives are flawed. Companies should never be allowed to hide behind an algorithm when people’s livelihoods and legal rights are at stake.

Sounds like a single spreadsheet would have done the job.

Wouldnt it be funny if it added a bunch of fake names to pad the list?

Woah, that sounds illegal as hell.

He could be replaced with AI and AI would def do a better job. He's not only evil, but he keeps trying to do new markets that absolutely suck: Legless Universe, Creep Glasses, Spy on everyone and propagandize them in a closed, addicting environment. Okay, that last one has been really successful.

You need an AI to sort a database of employees by vacation time used? The news is making people more stupid than anything else on this planet.

This is "Lines of code = productivity" levels of stupid and lazy. I want to work with people who are well rested, not ones who run themselves ragged and are always on the verge of burnout.

Maybe Meta has to payout unused vacation time and laying off someone who used vacation time is cheaper than someone who has a lot of vacation time? Still be dumb but not surprising if the only measurement they're going off of is $.

Anyone working for meta at this point knows what's up and deserves no sympathy for their business bullshit