Zoe Schiffer

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953 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jun

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search Is Over; AI Gets Booed by Graduates · 21 May 2026 podcast

Oh, absolutely.

You're going to do this.

And shame on you for asking.

And some of the employees who are staying, actually thousands of the employees who are staying are getting drafted into the AI ranks.

We published a piece today that was kind of about the morale inside the company, but also how there's been this mad dash to use up perks and stipends that employees have.

But one of the things that said at the end was that

remaining employees are being asked to like join AI teams.

So whatever your job was previously, they're calling internally like getting drafted.

You're getting drafted into the AI ranks.

Now your job is gonna look quite different.

This is the confusing thing, according to employees I have talked to, because the tough thing about what's happening right now is that Meta is actually experiencing record or near record profits and revenue growth.

Like the company is doing exceptionally well, but the company is not doing exceptionally well because of artificial intelligence.

I talked to employees who are on Instagram and they say, look, our main competitor is TikTok.

TikTok's not an AI company.

So in fact, you're trying to index on this thing that's really not at all why we're printing

money and now you're laying a bunch of us off because of that thing when actually we're doing our jobs quite well because, again, the company's printing money.

No, and I talked to—

I talked to two people who were, like, personally recruited by Mark Zuckerberg to join the kind of very fancy AI effort, and both of them said, look, the vision was AI-generated slop for Instagram and the other meta properties.

Like, it just wasn't uninspiring.

Meanwhile, you have OpenAI and Anthropic, you know, not to say they've done it, but their mission is we're going to completely change the economy and cure cancer.

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