By Charles Rollet, Ben Bergman
Publication Date: 2025-12-10 09:11:00
After Meta invested $14 billion in Scale AI this summer, poaching its 28-year-old founder Alexandr Wang, and top clients like OpenAI and Google stopped working with the startup, a Scale AI employee worriedly asked ChatGPT what it thought of its company’s fate. He knew the chatbot well, having tested it for vulnerabilities. The prognosis was bleak.
“Scale AI will cease to exist as a credible independent entity within 24 months,” wrote ChatGPT, which is not an official authority. “His infrastructure will be repurposed for Meta’s internal needs. His customer base will disappear. His role as a neutral red teamer or external reviewer is effectively over.”
The contractor shared the chat logs with colleagues at Scale AI. In a response reviewed by Business Insider, an employee said they were already on their way out and described the startup as a ticking time bomb.
The chatbot drew on a storm of headlines about Scale AI,…
