Meta is cutting about 8,000 jobs, and one employee responds by creating layoff-themed songs using artificial intelligence. According to reports, the worker makes an internal, radio-station-style listening experience that plays songs about job cuts as a way to cope with the layoffs. The songs are described as being generated by AI, and the project is presented as an employee-created form of commentary and morale support during a difficult period at the company. The New York Times frames the effort as a soundtrack to the layoffs created by a single worker, while India Today similarly describes the employee’s use of AI to produce songs related to job losses. Both accounts focus on the same core elements: Meta’s reduction of roughly 8,000 positions and the employee’s initiative to use AI-generated music centered on that layoff experience. Neither source suggests the songs change the company’s plans; instead, they portray the effort as a personal creative reaction within Meta during the downsizing.