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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by kridsdale1 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:50PM (#45675618)
When I worked there (7 years), the gatekeeper effect was real. It didn’t stop broken or harmful, but it did stop revenue neutral or revenue negative. Even if we had proven the product was positive to user wellbeing or brand-favorability.

Yes I’m still bitter.

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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by HDThoreaun on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:21PM (#45676409)
Why would a business release a revenue negative product? Stopping engineers from making products that dont contribute to the bottom line is exactly what these gatekeepers should be doing
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by fooker on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:53PM (#45676626)
Because you don't have perfect foresight.

Something that loses money now can be the next big thing. ChatGPT is the biggest recent example of this.

I had seen chatbot demos at Google as early as 2019.

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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by lII1lIlI11ll on Thursday October 23, 2025 @03:12AM (#45679093)
Because due to that mindset now FB sucks and no one wants to use it anymore?
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by HDThoreaun on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:50PM (#45687728)
FB ad serve up 10% yoy but no is using it?
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by array_key_first on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:15PM (#45689188)
Correct, they don't know yet that their platform is dead, but it is. Most of those are bots.
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