Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will soon use AI to do what thousands of human moderators do

Meta is reportedly accelerating plans to replace thousands of human content moderators with generative artificial intelligence (AI). The transition comes as part of a broader, company-wide cost-cutting drive as the Mark Zuckerberg-led company is spending billions of dollars on advanced AI infrastructure. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Financial Times reported that the tech group has fast-tracked the deployment of large language models (LLMs) to review posts and advertisements across Facebook and Instagram – that could save the company billions of dollars annually.

Massive shift to automated review