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Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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492 points Lionga | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | 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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1. renewiltord ◴[22 Oct 25 19:27 UTC] No.45673979[source]▶
The traditional way of responding to this is the usual collective emulation of Struggle Sessions but I can easily come up with a couple of plausible answers for you:

* LLM translation is far better than any other kind of translation. Inter-language communication is obviously directly related to human connection.

* Diffusion models allow people to express themselves in new ways. People use image macros and image memes to communicate already.

In fact, I am disappointed that no one has the imagination to do this. I get it. You guys all want to cosplay as oppressed Marxist-Leninists having defoliants dropped on you by United Fruit Corporation. But you could at least try the mildest attempt at exercising your minds.