Around 6,500 people are in the ADO org, more than at OpenAI and Anthropic. Roughly four to five thousand of these are software engineers. Meta has around 25,000 engineers, meaning that one in every 5-6 software engineers may now find themselves doing data labeling full time.

As you can imagine, people are actively open to new positions, and nobody is updating their job title on LinkedIn and elsewhere to “data labeling at Meta.”

The tech giant made thousands of engineers train their AI replacements—then fired them.

The latest earnings, released on April 29, revealed a dip in user numbers for the first time since it started reporting these figures.

Seemingly, this is an unspoken understanding at the top AI companies. When one Meta researcher inquired if the company's legal team had okayed using LibGen, another responded: "I didn't ask questions but this is what OpenAI does with GPT3, what Google does with PALM, and what Deepmind does with Chinchilla so we will do it to[o]," per Vanity Fair, from internal messages cited in the suit.