To develop its artificial intelligence (AI) models, Meta will begin monitoring staff members’ keystrokes and mouse clicks. The corporation, which owns Facebook and Instagram, informed employees on Tuesday that a new tool will be installed on Meta’s internal apps and computers to record their activities for use as AI training data.
A Meta spokesperson told the BBC: “If we’re creating agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our approaches need real examples of how people actually use them. He said that the program has “safeguards in place to protect sensitive content” and that the data is not utilized for any other purpose.
However, one Meta employee, who wished to remain anonymous, stated that it feels “very dystopian to have their smallest acts on a computer being used to train an AI model while workers anticipate numerous job cutbacks. They told the BBC that this corporation has developed an obsession with AI.
The tracking tool is “just the latest way they’re shoving AI down everyone’s throat,” according to another recent employee. As previously reported by the BBC, Meta has already laid off some 2,000 workers this year in smaller waves, but workers have been anticipating more significant job losses in the coming months.
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