Mark Zuckerberg Boasts He Bled His Employees For AI Training Right Before Firing Them
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced layoffs affecting 10% of Meta's workforce while revealing that employees' skills were being used to train AI models. This announcement caused significant distress among staff, who faced a month of uncertainty before learning their fate. The situation was exacerbated by Zuckerberg's comments during an all-hands meeting, where he highlighted the intelligence of his employees just before their impending layoffs.
- ▪Meta announced it would lay off 10% of its workforce, impacting nearly 8,000 employees.
- ▪Employees faced a month of uncertainty, referred to as '28 days of hell', before learning who would be laid off.
- ▪Zuckerberg revealed in a meeting that the company's AI models were being trained on the skills of the employees he was about to fire.
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Mark Zuckerberg Boasts He Bled His Employees For AI Training Right Before Firing Them The Meta boss just sacked 8,000 staff, but not before having AI spy on their skills AIMark ZuckerbergMeta By John Walker Published May 25, 2026 | Comments (0) | 𝕏 Copied! Mark Zuckerberg staring out of his dead, dead eyes. © Shutterstock / FotoField I don’t know if you heard the news, but Mark Zuckerberg is a real piece of shit. One of many recent examples is the news from Futurism that the dead-eyed Meta CEO boasted to his employees that their intelligence and elite skills were unknowingly being used to train his AI model at the same time as they waited to learn if they’d be one of the 8,000 laid off from the company. On April 23, Meta announced it would be firing 10 percent of its workforce.
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