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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

#51

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.

It would be really embarrassing if this is what it takes to come to that realization rather than the same way the rest of the world does.

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

#53
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

Are they merging with Palantir any time soon?

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

#55
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.

Yes, but I cannot imagine Meta cares about chilling their employees. They're deep into the "extract more value" phase and are no longer bringing in the cutting edge talent.

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

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

on your phone not connected to corp wifi

That doesn't matter anymore unless they have an SSL proxy. If you have ECH/ODoH anyway.

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

#57
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.

That's not a bug, that's a feature

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

#58
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!!”

I am to speculate that they are going to use this as an excuse to let people go without doing mass layoffs and having to pay severance. Training AI is just an excuse.

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

#59
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

I insulted him in my mandatory Exit Interview form from HR when I resigned.

It had no impact of recruiters trying to win me back since then.

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

#60
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.

Yeah automatically assume everything on your work computer is available for your employer to see. And everything you do on your own device when connected to their WiFi or VPN.

I’m surprised this needs to be said out loud.

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