The Bad PlaceBusiness Latest | ‘It’s Undignified’: Hundreds of Workers Training Meta’s AI Could Be Laid Off by Joel Khalili
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Hundreds of employees at Dublin‑based contractor Covalen, which provides content‑moderation and data‑annotation services for Meta’s AI models, have been told they may lose their jobs as the company undergoes a new wave of layoffs; the risk affects more than 700 workers, about 500 of whom are data annotators tasked with checking AI‑generated material against Meta’s rules and even crafting elaborate prompts to test the system’s guardrails against illegal content. The cuts, announced via a brief video call and attributed to “reduced demand and operational requirements,” come after Meta’s broader plan to slash 10 % of its workforce while doubling investment in AI, and follow an earlier round of cuts at Covalen that sparked a strike. Unions argue the layoffs illustrate how tech firms treat the labor that trains their AI as disposable, are pushing for severance negotiations and government talks, and note that affected staff face a six‑month “cooldown” period before they can work for another Meta vendor, underscoring workers’ concerns about being replaced by the very AI they helped build.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-covalen-ai-workers-layoffs/
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