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• r/technology r on reddit

  Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

• @bcmerchant Brian Merchant on bluesky

  This comes, notably, after Meta's announcement that it will lay off 8,000 workers next month.  [embedded post]

• @dell Dell Cameron on bluesky

  meta has been crashing out left and right for years so i have no doubt this blow up in its face [embedded post]

• @porkanoque @porkanoque on bluesky

  spy on you and steal your job [embedded post]

• @jeffhorwitz Jeff Horwitz on bluesky

  Meta will begin keystroke logging US employees at work — complete with mouse movements and periodic screenshots — to train better AI agents.  —  This comes after Boz posted about a future in which AI will “primarily do the work” at meta.  —  It's a new era for tech labor. www.reu…

• @hagenblix Hagen Blix on bluesky

  Total workplace surveillance.  Coming now to a tech worker near you, and soon to workers everywhere  —  AI is the industrialization of the production of management and oversight itself

• @ecommerceshares @ecommerceshares on x

  Zuck should go a step further and have employees wear full-body sensor suits and motion capture cameras all day, even at home. Massively valuable 3D AI model training for $META.

• @tekbog @tekbog on x

  other big corporations will probably follow this pattern, more layoffs, etc

• @dudewhoinvests @dudewhoinvests on x

  Meta $META employees realizing they are training the very thing that will take their job one day [video]

• r/privacy r on reddit

  Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Yes they are. 3/3 devs at Meta who I asked how they feel about this change all said they are outraged. Not heard either of them be this negative about the company before. One is looking for off-ramp options. This is the stuff ONLY outsourcing agencies did w their devs till now

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  “There is no option to opt out” - Meta's CTO “There was no option to opt out” - epigraph for life as we knew it?

• @charlesrollet1 Charles Rollet on x

  Scoop! Meta staff are outraged over a new program that trains AI off their keystrokes and mouse movements. “This makes me super uncomfortable. How do we opt out?” was the top-rated comment in response. “There is no option to opt out,” Boz wrote to a slew of angry-face emojis. [im…

• @the_ai_investor @the_ai_investor on x

  Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes for training its AI. Is this the beginning of the end of the human worker era? There is no privacy while the AI is being trained to do what you are

• @billym2k Shibetoshi Nakamoto on x

  literally the meme [image]

• @gothburz Peter Girnus on x

  I am the Senior Director of Workforce Intelligence at Meta. I want to be clear about what we're doing. We are installing software on every US employee's computer that records their mouse movements. Their clicks. Their keystrokes. Occasional screenshots. This is not

• @tunguz Bojan Tunguz on x

  They are using their workers to train their AI and replace them. Utterly cringe and dystopian.

• @tmtlongshort @tmtlongshort on x

  Smell that? It's the fake email jobs going the way of the dodo. Slowly and then all at once. The first ten companies to do this will publish some crazy stat like “20% of employees do 99% of productive knowledge work” and next thing you know every public company CEO will be