Meta is recording its engineers' keystrokes to train AI, then cutting 8,000 jobs. I build software with these tools every day. Those people are irreplaceable because the model can't do that one thing.
Interesting timing to find this article, i just said to chatgpt that its weakness is lacking (as absence) of the indirect context that wasn’t included into my problem’s description. Especially when a problem to be evaluated is a niche problem with combined context built through details accumulated as a result of previous dialogue. Record clicks will not help to make ai to pay attention to things not explicitly stated. A human can do it.
To me this suggests Meta sees parts of human work as data to be extracted and modeled, which can feel like reducing people to datapoints.
And true this raises the concern that human behavior is being treated as training material rather than something with its own dignity and context.
Interesting timing to find this article, i just said to chatgpt that its weakness is lacking (as absence) of the indirect context that wasn’t included into my problem’s description. Especially when a problem to be evaluated is a niche problem with combined context built through details accumulated as a result of previous dialogue. Record clicks will not help to make ai to pay attention to things not explicitly stated. A human can do it.