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Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training

Meta (META.O) is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees' computers to capture mouse movements …

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  • @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.
  • @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
  • @tekbog @tekbog on x
    other big corporations will probably follow this pattern, more layoffs, etc
  • @billym2k Shibetoshi Nakamoto on x
    literally the meme [image]
  • @dudewhoinvests @dudewhoinvests on x
    Meta $META employees realizing they are training the very thing that will take their job one day [video]
  • @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...This is not surveillance.  This is training data...Every employee consented to this...Everyone signs it.  Nobody reads it.  That's the design.
  • @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?
  • @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
  • @buccocapital @buccocapital on x
    As I have been saying, the race to capture every single piece of context in the organization is on. Some companies will be more aggressive than others But they are coming for your context. And by carrot or by stick, they will get it [image]
  • @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 ins…
  • @jeffhorwitz Jeff Horwitz on bluesky
    Partly to train the bots how to navigate pulldowns.  Also, I suspect being able to see the order of operations of user actions (not just the finished content) would allow you to pull together individual tasks into a flow — it's kind of the sinews of work process?  —  (this is sup…
  • @chronotope.aramzs.xyz Aram Zucker-Scharff on bluesky
    How.  —  How would this train AI exactly? [embedded post]
  • @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
  • @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]
  • r/BetterOffline r on reddit
    Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
  • r/technology r on reddit
    Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their mouse movements and keystrokes
  • r/privacy r on reddit
    Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
  • @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on bluesky
    “Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its AI models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in i…