India, Feb. 12 -- Silicon Valley has become the epicentre of another verbal spat. BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti has launched a scathing attack on his rival Mark Zuckerberg over the latter's company Meta's use of artificial intelligence for content recommendation and moderation.

Peretti said Meta began using AI to compete with the rising prominence of ByteDance's TikTok. "Similar to [ByteDance Founder] Zhang Yiming, Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care very much about the content on his platforms and is much more interested in technology and AI," Peretti said.

He added that to achieve this goal, Meta had to rebuild their data centres by racking billions of dollars worth of GPUs. "But this shift also meant that employees working at Meta no longer kn...