Meta's AI gulag: why 6,500 engineers are revolting against forced assignments

meta's newly formed applied ai division is grappling with a morale crisis after forcing roughly 6,500 product managers and engineers into 'draft' roles to generate puzzles and coding problems for model training. the hostile environment culminated in a livesteamed outburst where an employee cursed executives, while a separate petition with 1,600 signatures condemns software that monitors keystrokes for ai data. mark zuckerberg acknowledged the 'distress' caused by these reorganizations, which included management ratios of 50 employees per manager. the internal strife creates a significant execution risk for meta as it races to integrate generative ai across its platforms.