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This week, Meta<\/span> laid off<\/span> 8,000 employees\u201410 percent of the company\u2019s staff\u2014and reassigned another 7,000 to train AI models. Fear of the layoffs had been building around the company for weeks, compounded by the way that Meta has taken a sharp turn from a company built by coders to a company that has staked its future on AI. So when a Meta software engineer named David Frenk posted a farewell parody video to the tune of \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d in an internal message board, staff thought it perfectly captured how the culture of the company has fundamentally shifted. They begged him to post it to YouTube, making their plight inside the company public.\u00a0<\/p>

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\u201cThere\u2019s a bit of a disconnect,\u201d one former employee who asked not to be identified told Mother Jones<\/em>, \u201cThis is a company of really smart people who work really hard\u2014coders, engineers, designers\u2014people whose creativity and intellect is a part of their job. And you are being told that this AI agent can do it better than you, and you are being asked to train it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Meta, there\u2019s a tradition: when you leave, you make a \u201cbadge post\u201d on the company\u2019s internal message board. Usually, it\u2019s a tribute to coworkers and co-creation\u2014very kumbaya. But Frenk turned his badge post into a crusade in C major. It became a runaway hit.<\/p>\n

Frenk left of his own accord\u2014his last day is today\u2014and had a little time to decide how he wanted to go out. In an internal chat called \u201c@shitposting\u201d that has about 20,000 members, Frenk posted a high-production-value parody of the Don McLean song \u201cAmerican Pie.\u201d You probably haven\u2019t thought about \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d in a while. The song is a lengthy ballad that unspools the history of rock and roll and laments the loss of innocence when the 1960s turned into the decade of disco. Frenk\u2019s version recounts the recent history of Meta and its position at the edge of a tectonic shift as the company asks workers to train AI\u2014and then lays off thousands of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The song is a consummate parody, and the lyrics are laced with inside jokes and references best understood by those inside the company. Andrew Bosworth, Meta\u2019s Chief Technology Officer and a 20-year veteran of the company, gets name checked multiple times for promoting an internal monitoring software called MCI, orModel Capability Initiative, that the company installed on the computers of US employees this spring. MCI tracks the way humans interact with their screens, capturing mouse clicks and keyboard strokes to train AI to appear more \u201chuman-like.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Frenk sings:<\/p>\n

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And now I\u2019m singing bye, bye, to professional prideSign the petition, no more wishing, just deny MCIIt\u2019s the human touch that lets you know you\u2019re aliveMaybe this can\u2019t be replaced with AI<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When the initiative was rolled out internally, the former employee said, one of the top comments on an internal message board was \u201chow do I opt out?\u201d<\/p>

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Frenk\u2019s video currently has tens of thousands of views on Meta\u2019s internal messaging system, though many of the comments are from accounts deactivated after Wednesday\u2019s layoffs. The video seems to have captured a shift inside the company where profits are at a record high, executives are receiving huge raises, and yet 8,000 people have lost their jobs. (\u201cWhen investors pressed us to get more lean,\u201d Frenk asks in his parody, \u201cWhy did execs\u2019 paychecks grow so obscene?\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all feels a bit off,\u201d the former employee said. \u201cIn a lighthearted way, even if you really, fully believe that this is the direction to go down, everything [in the video] still rings true.\u201d (Meta didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.)<\/p>\n

The comments bled over into Blind, a message board for current and former tech workers from places like Meta and Google to chat without their companies monitoring them. On Blind, people posted that the video \u201cmade me tear up\u201d and \u201ctouched my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But the thing that really is most evilAnd the reason that morale\u2019s in freefallIs you forgot we\u2019re all just peopleWhen you abused AI<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Do you work at Meta? Send tips securely to the Center for Investigative Reporting at cirtips@protonmail.com.<\/em><\/p>

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