Core AI Means Labeling Data
Description
A black-and-white hand-drawn meme shows a worried engineer on the left wearing a hard hat labeled "AI ENGINEER" and holding a book labeled "PYTHON," with a Meta infinity logo near the bottom. The engineer says: "i don't understand! i thought i was going to be working on core ai systems?" On the right, an angry figure wearing a hat with the Meta logo points a rifle and yells in a bold speech bubble: "shut up and label the data." The joke targets the gap between glamorous AI-engineering job expectations and the less glamorous reality of producing, cleaning, annotating, and evaluating training data for large-scale models inside Big Tech reorgs.
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They promised frontier AI; the frontier turned out to be a CSV with 40,000 ambiguous rows and no rubric.
At Meta, “working close to the model” means sitting between it and an unlabeled CSV.
This fa(a)ng is going to poison you Comment deleted
I swear we had a meme like this but couldn’t find it Comment deleted
You couldn't go one day without an AI meme could you 😁 Comment deleted
At times I feel being an ai meme myself 🫠 Comment deleted
AI meme posting will continue until morale improves Comment deleted
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Shut up and build the CRUD app Comment deleted
I heard the situation is even worse: they forced skilled SWEs to write code examples to train the AI to code better. It’s some kind of post-Orwellian nightmare. 🫤 Comment deleted