So lets take one of the most expensive, labor intensive parts of our business and replace it with crowdsourced notes.
As of 2022, Meta employed 15000 content moderators. Expected salary of 70K to 150K per person (salary + benefits, plus consulting premiums) so lets assume 110K.
This implies $1.65B in workforce costs for content moderation.
Meta is more likely to make their earnings....
Though I wonder if they will redeploy these people to be labelers for LLMs?
Again, conflating moderation within Meta, with fact-checking by third party orgs, which is what this is primarily about.
In reading the comments, it's clear to me that "community-based fact-checking" will not work since not even HN users can get basic facts straight (not due to any lack of intelligence, probably just didn't read the article or understand the context), how do we expect the FB userbase to do so?
It’s not conflating. They also announced that a lot of content that was moderated won’t be any more. For example labeling someone trans as having mental health issues was forbidden and it won’t be anymore. So they are reducing moderation too.
As of 2022, Meta employed 15000 content moderators. Expected salary of 70K to 150K per person (salary + benefits, plus consulting premiums) so lets assume 110K.
This implies $1.65B in workforce costs for content moderation.
Meta is more likely to make their earnings....
Though I wonder if they will redeploy these people to be labelers for LLMs?