Hacker News with Generative AI: Meta

Meta scrambling 'war rooms' of engineers to figure out DeepSeek's AI (fortune.com)
Meta is reportedly scrambling ‘war rooms’ of engineers to figure out how DeepSeek’s AI is beating everyone else at a fraction of the price
Meta, AI, Competition, Generative AI
26 points by zathan 12 hours ago | 18 comments
Meta to spend up to $65B this year to power AI goals, Zuckerberg says (reuters.com)
Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Investments, Technology, Business
6 points by testrun 4 days ago | 3 comments
Meta's Threads to Show Ads in US, Japan (bloomberg.com)
Meta Platforms Inc. will show advertising on social network Threads for the first time, opening up a new revenue stream for the company and increasing competition for Elon Musk’s X.
Social Media, Advertising, Meta, Competition
13 points by belter 4 days ago | 3 comments
Meta GenAI team is in panic mode due to deepseek v3 (twitter.com)
Meta, Generative AI, Competition
11 points by cpt100 5 days ago | 3 comments
Meta admits some people can't unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram (the-independent.com)
Meta admits some people can’t unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram
Social Media, Politics, Meta, Instagram, Donald Trump
17 points by belter 6 days ago | 3 comments
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg sanctioned for allegedly deleting emails (techcrunch.com)
A Delaware judge has sanctioned Sheryl Sandberg, Meta’s former COO and board member, for allegedly deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
Meta, Lawsuits, Privacy, Social Media, Business
12 points by perihelions 7 days ago | 0 comments
Meta under fire for making users follow Trump and Vance (techissuestoday.com)
Facebook is under fire after users noticed their accounts were automatically following President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. But this wasn’t some random glitch and people are not happy about it. Many insist they never followed these figures or interacted with their pages, yet there they were on their profiles.
Social Media, Politics, Privacy, Facebook, Meta
45 points by ungut 7 days ago | 9 comments
Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram (chrisalemany.ca)
Social Media, Censorship, Politics, Meta
267 points by vool 8 days ago | 171 comments
It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI (lithub.com)
It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash, “designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students,” now encompasses Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, and Meta, the failed vision for a remote workplace, fun-zone, and Zucker-verse where legs are always just around the corner.
Artificial Intelligence, Meta, Copyright
146 points by pseudolus 8 days ago | 181 comments
Mark Zuckerberg blamed Sheryl Sandberg for Meta 'inclusivity' push: report (msn.com)
Meta, Business, Leadership, Social Media, News
51 points by impish9208 10 days ago | 90 comments
The Slop Society (wheresyoured.at)
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created" on both Instagram and Facebook, the latter of which was shown in a study from George Washington University to, by design, "afford antivaccine content producers several means to circumvent the intent of misinformation removal
Social Media, Facebook, Misinformation, Censorship, Meta
9 points by DanAtC 11 days ago | 0 comments
Meta takes us a step closer to Star Trek's universal translator (arstechnica.com)
Back in 2023, AI researchers at Meta interviewed 34 native Spanish and Mandarin speakers who lived in the US but didn’t speak English. The goal was to find out what people who constantly rely on translation in their day-to-day activities expect from an AI translation tool.
Artificial Intelligence, Language Technology, Translation, Meta
6 points by LorenDB 13 days ago | 1 comments
Meta to Cut 5% Workforce (nytimes.com)
Meta plans to lay off up to 5 percent of its employees based on performance ratings, according to an internal memo to workers on Tuesday viewed by The New York Times.
Meta, Layoffs, Tech Industry, Business
18 points by darth_avocado 14 days ago | 1 comments
Meta Is Planning to Cut 5% of Lowest Performers, Memo Shows (bloomberg.com)
Meta Platforms Inc. is cutting roughly 5% of its staff through performance-based eliminations and plans to hire new people to fill their roles this year, according to an internal memo sent to all employees.
Meta, Layoffs, Business, Technology
22 points by toomuchtodo 14 days ago | 15 comments
Meta admits it deleted links to decentralized Instagram competitor Pixelfed (engadget.com)
Meta appeared to be blocking links to Pixelfed, a decentralized photo-sharing platform, on Facebook, according to both users on Bluesky and 404 Media.
Social Media, Decentralization, Meta, Instagram
22 points by shakna 15 days ago | 3 comments
Soon to be out of a job Meta's fact-checkers battle wildfire conspiracy theories (cnn.com)
Meta, Fact-Checking, Conspiracy Theories, Social Media, Journalism
6 points by cdme 15 days ago | 0 comments
Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers (businessinsider.com)
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the work of midlevel software engineers can soon be outsourced to AI.
Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Meta, Business
43 points by cryptoz 15 days ago | 103 comments
Meta will start automating the work of midlevel software engineers this year (businessinsider.com)
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the work of midlevel software engineers can soon be outsourced to AI.
Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Software Engineering, Business
11 points by ProAm 16 days ago | 1 comments
I deleted my social media accounts (asylumsquare.com)
In case you missed it: Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta is ditching its fact-checkers (check out the video here). As if that wasn’t enough, he casually mentioned that Meta is teaming up with Trump to fight EU regulations affecting their platforms.
Social Media, Meta, Censorship
400 points by joemanaco 16 days ago | 481 comments
Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Law
155 points by stefan_ 16 days ago | 191 comments
Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg – Congratulations on your remarks (berliner-zeitung.de)
Media lawyer Joachim Steinhöfel fought for freedom of expression on Facebook. Now he welcomes Zuckerberg’s move to abolish fact-checkers on Meta. An open letter.
Social Media, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg
10 points by DyslexicAtheist 17 days ago | 9 comments
Torrenting from a Meta-owned corporate laptop doesn't feel right (wired.com)
Meta just lost a major fight in its ongoing legal battle with a group of authors suing the company for copyright infringement over how it trained its artificial intelligence models.
Meta, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits
23 points by hdjjhhvvhga 17 days ago | 10 comments
Zuck: Meta will start replacing mid-level engineers with AI as early as 2025 [video] (youtube.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Meta, Technology, Engineering, Workforce
11 points by CharlesW 17 days ago | 0 comments
Meta is ushering in a 'world without facts', says Nobel peace prize winner (theguardian.com)
The Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has said Meta’s decision to end factchecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means “extremely dangerous times” lie ahead for journalism, democracy and social media users.
Meta, Social Media, Journalism, Democracy, Censorship
16 points by zfg 18 days ago | 15 comments
Meta's head of civil rights departs (linkedin.com)
I just announced that I am leaving Meta. Here is my note:
Meta, Social Media, Civil Rights, Leadership
11 points by ianrahman 18 days ago | 0 comments
Global fact-checkers were disappointed, not surprised, Meta ended its program (restofworld.org)
Meta’s fact-checking partners around the world are disappointed — but not surprised — by Facebook’s move to do away with fact-checking by trained teams.
Social Media, Fact-Checking, Meta, News, Journalism
9 points by devonnull 18 days ago | 0 comments
Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the fact-checkers, nine years later (poynter.org)
As Meta announces end to U.S. fact-checking, program partners warn of a setback for accuracy online and potential global consequences
Social Media, Fact-Checking, Journalism, Meta, Public Policy
9 points by bjourne 18 days ago | 0 comments
Meta's dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people (platformer.news)
"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram
Meta, Social Media, Transgender Issues, Censorship, Online Policy
11 points by latexr 18 days ago | 0 comments
Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team OK to train on copyrighted works,filing claims (techcrunch.com)
Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company’s Llama AI models to use a dataset of pirated e-books and articles for training.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright Law, Legal Issues, Meta, Business
10 points by croes 18 days ago | 2 comments
Meta Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database (wired.com)
Meta just lost a major fight in its ongoing legal battle with a group of authors suing the company for copyright infringement over how it trained its artificial intelligence models.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright Infringement, Legal Battles, Meta, Piracy
7 points by mdhb 19 days ago | 1 comments