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Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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492 points Lionga | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.431s | source
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Rebuff5007 ◴[22 Oct 25 18:46 UTC] No.45673440[source]▶
From a quick online search:

- OpenAI's mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.

- Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

- Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.

Lets just take these three companies, and their self-defined mission statements. I see what google and openai are after. Is there any case for anyone to make inside or outside Meta that AI is needed to build the future of human connection? What problem is Meta trying to solve with their billions of investment in "super" intelligence? I genuinely have no idea, and they probably don't either. Which is why they would be laying of 600 people a week after paying a billion dollars to some guy for working on the same stuff.

EDIT: everyone commenting that mission statements are PR fluff. Fine. What is a productive way they can use LLMs in any of their flagship products today?

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jfim ◴[22 Oct 25 18:55 UTC] No.45673569[source]▶
Maybe the future of human connection is chatting with a large language model, at least according to Meta. Haven't they added chatbots to messenger?
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1. more_corn ◴[22 Oct 25 19:18 UTC] No.45673857[source]▶
That’s not “the future of human connection”

The critical word in there is… Never mind. If you can’t already see it, nothing I can say will make you see it.

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2. moffkalast ◴[22 Oct 25 20:07 UTC] No.45674476[source]▶
If your friends are human then you could collectively decide to leave for another platform, that's not very cash money for Meta. They want to go past you being on Facebook cause all your friends are there, they want you to be friends with the platform itself.

Side note, has black mirror done this yet or are they still stuck on "what if you are the computer" for the 34th time?