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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

#42
This is going to be a huge chilling factor for employees. You’d no longer be able to disent, or discuss anything non-work related with even the slightest expectation of privacy.

Yes they could have accessed logs before but there’s a difference between directed checking after incidents and active surveillance at scale.

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

#43
post #34

For context, when the article says "a list of work-related apps and websites," this includes Google properties like gmail, docs, etc, and social media websites like Facebook and Instagram, with no provision for excluding personal accounts.

You know you are at work and monitored.

You can browser personal accounts from your phone.

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

#44

Meta going all in on their brand with this. Someone had to do it, distasteful though it may be. Could be quite hilarious what it learns in the process.

That people watch TikTok instead of Instagram reels. Quite embarrassing.

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

#45
post #42

This is going to be a huge chilling factor for employees. You’d no longer be able to disent, or discuss anything non-work related with even the slightest expectation of privacy. Yes they could have accessed logs before but there’s a difference between directed checking after incidents and active surveillance at scale.

Yeah, if at any time Mark can ask Meta AI ‘which of my employees insulted me today’ for example, that’s wild

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

#46
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Doesn't this assume that what humans are current doing with LLM agents is working out? Isn't it a bit early to bet on that to this degree?

Not when all of the marketing of LLMs is touting their abilities to do the exact thing and that is what investors are being presented.

If it is as you say, then eventually the house of cards will crumble. Then we can finally go back to work and quit being inundated with needing to use AI for everything.

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

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post #24

Data collection isn’t new. The training is.

You don't think collecting this type of intimate information about your employees as a major violation of the social contract?

I’m just saying that they’ve been collecting this info for years. Keyloggers, etc. are on all the computers you’re given. Employees didn’t have any expectation of privacy - just a hope. Now, it’s clear it’s completely gone and so the hope and goodwill is gone.

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

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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?

These are the same employees that willfully code the largest spy network on the planet, so it seems like they are willing to believe a lot

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

#49
post #34

For context, when the article says "a list of work-related apps and websites," this includes Google properties like gmail, docs, etc, and social media websites like Facebook and Instagram, with no provision for excluding personal accounts.

You know you are at work and monitored. You can browser personal accounts from your phone.

on your phone not connected to corp wifi

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

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post #34

For context, when the article says "a list of work-related apps and websites," this includes Google properties like gmail, docs, etc, and social media websites like Facebook and Instagram, with no provision for excluding personal accounts.

You know you are at work and monitored. You can browser personal accounts from your phone.

And Ideally not connected to company WiFi
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