Facebook's parent company Meta cut nearly 8,000 jobs, roughly 10 per cent of its workforce, and also shifted more than 7,000 employees into AI-focused teams at the same time. A viral post shared by a user named Julian claimed that employees at the company were first asked to build internal AI tools before layoffs started at multiple divisions. The timing of the post is significant and is now being widely discussed across social media, especially as Meta pushes aggressively into artificial intelligence.
According to the post, Meta had organised a company-wide "AI week" a few months back and during that week, the company paused the regular work and employees were asked to familiarise themselves with AI tools, the post claimed. The post added that when the exercise was about to end, workers were reportedly expected to create early versions of internal AI products that could later be developed further inside the company.
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Julian claimed that his wife spent months helping refine an AI product alongside senior executives and engineers, all while privately worrying that the same technology she was working on could one day replace her own job.
"After that week, projects that were approved were chosen to continue further development with AI and engineers. For the past couple of months, my wife has been working with a superior and an engineer to refine her approved project, knowing that it could ultimately be what replaces her. Fast forward to today: She's canned," the post added.
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"This isn't a sob story, we will figure out how to move forward. But this is a wakeup call to everyone wanting to find entry- to mid-level, work in a white collar field. AI is only going to make your job prospects worse," the post concluded.
