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wired.com‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total MessExecutives and employees alike are struggling with Meta’s chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.

Well, for one, life at the newly assembled Applied AI team is “literally the gulag”, one anonymous employee told WIRED. Sudden isolation and drudgework tasks are dragging morale to a record low. /3

wired.comA Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration AgentsColleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.

Recent mass layoffs at Meta have done little to lift spirits. According to communications seen by WIRED, one former employee who lost their job in May was reportedly detained by ICE in recent days. Meta’s response? No comment. /4

wired.comMeta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon“I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore,” one employee posted in a forum open to the entire staff.

No wonder then that Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement last Friday for a companywide AI hackathon wasn’t warmly received within Meta’s thinning ranks. /5

wired.comMeta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of PhonesCode reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

Consumers can’t feel too safe either. Analysis by WIRED revealed Meta has been quietly embedding facial recognition into its smart glasses since at least January. /6

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wired.comMeta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED ReportThe code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

Meta quickly dismissed the report and claimed the face-recognition feature “does not exist.” The code disappeared from the system one day after WIRED’s report, as quietly as it came up. /7

wired.comMeta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its GlassesRank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

But Meta is also working with Rank One, a company supplying surveillance systems to the US government, on a test face-recognition software. Maybe Zuckerberg can whip up a hackathon for that?👀 /8

Jeff Messer

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