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

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

#22
post #14

They have nothing else to do. Someone needs to be able to justify their position by creating stupid changes like this to create a line item on their LinkedIn. Meanwhile, nobody seems focused on capturing CEO’s data for AI training.

The same company is trying to build an AI Zuckerberg...

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

#23
post #19

>data collected would not be used for performance assessments or any other purpose besides model training And you expect Meta employees , of all people, to believe this?

Does not matter? I think the high compensation will be what will drive the compliance.

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

#26
I like to imagine they’ll mostly capture meta employees using AIs to do work.

Then they’ll deploy models trained on this, and begin capturing employees using AIs that are good at using AIs to do work.

Repeat a few times and they’ll start capturing the keystrokes from people mashing their heads into keyboards with dispair and exclaiming, “Why can’t these models do anything anymore!!”

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

#27
Wasn't it a few months ago that some engineer leaked that XAI was building 'Human Emulators'. This is either Meta's attempt at the same or just a blatant lie to make sure their engineers aren't slacking off. I've heard the workload has more than doubled for those who weren't laid off which is the only reason I think it might not be a employee monitoring system as I don't think anyone there can afford to not work hard.

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

#28
post #14

They have nothing else to do. Someone needs to be able to justify their position by creating stupid changes like this to create a line item on their LinkedIn. Meanwhile, nobody seems focused on capturing CEO’s data for AI training.

The same company is trying to build an AI Zuckerberg...

It is going to be funny in a few decades when zuck transfers his shares and voting rights and estate to the ai bot, and makes himself functionally immortal. Or at least a sort of commissioned renaissance painting version of himself, probably.

Imagine in 300 years we are still ruled by zuck, ellison, bezos, musk, thiel, et al, just in ai model form empowered by estates worth more than entire nations and legal protections designed to outlast heat death of the universe. Assuming there is still a "we" living on earth. Charitable assumption I guess.

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

#29
post #26

I like to imagine they’ll mostly capture meta employees using AIs to do work. Then they’ll deploy models trained on this, and begin capturing employees using AIs that are good at using AIs to do work. Repeat a few times and they’ll start capturing the keystrokes from people mashing their heads into keyboards with dispair and exclaiming, “Why can’t these models do anything anymore!!”

While it would be a hilarious failure mode to encounter, this is actually a good thing!

These models already have the skills that humans were using them for, so either by training the models to use subagents or simply inlining the work done by the AI, you have a much easier time training the model to perform tasks from a human-distribution. The humans have done the work of making the human-distribution look more like an AI distribution.

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

#30
> to improve the company's models in areas where they still struggle, like choosing from dropdown menus and using keyboard shortcuts

Seems like a strange approach in general. I'd have assumed you'd just have it use accessibility features to get at things, if there is no other interface.

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