This marks a culture change for Meta, where engineers had previously competed to consume the most AI tokens, displaying their scores on a leaderboard. Meta then discovered that its employees were being diverted from regular work because they were using AI to carry out additional tasks to boost their scores.
Amazon had similar results when it implemented a leaderboard to track AI use; it also found that some employees were trying to game the system by using AI to complete unnecessary tasks, and it has now deleted it.
The company, however, does also monitor employees’ use of AI for training purposes, in a program introduced in April, but this is information was not used to measure employee performance.
