Meta's AI 'Gulag' Revolt: 6,500 Engineers Say Their New Jobs Are 'Soul-Crushing'
When a Meta employee hijacked a company-wide livestream last Thursday and screamed at colleagues to tell a senior AI executive he was “a piece of shit,” it wasn’t one person having a bad day. It was the eruption of months of fury inside one of the most ambitious — and botched — corporate reorganizations in tech history. Welcome to Meta’s Applied AI unit, where roughly 6,500 engineers are openly calling their new assignment “the gulag.” ...