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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

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Post by hx8 »

ianbutler wrote: post #240
leptons wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe in 2010 or 2015, but in 2026? Nobody is quitting their high paying job when the job market is this rough . A bubble has burst and there just are not the tech jobs out there that there used to be. And employers know this, so they are enacting all kinds of draconian policies because they know employees know that they can't just leave the job and also keep their families fed.

job market is 2019 levels this rhetoric is nice, but doesn't stack up. yes it's not 2021 levels which is where they over hired and hired a bunch of people they would not have hired before then.

The tech job market was about 2019 levels a year ago. It's materially worse now.

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

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Post by cesarb »

kaashif wrote: post #225
cyclopeanutopia wrote: post #143

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This is a ridiculous statement. Everyone I know at my company uses work laptops for personal stuff. It's not in the land of freedom though, so great leaders like yourself can't fire people at will. TBH at this point I don't believe you are a real person.

I'm not American or in America, but I wouldn't use a work laptop for anything personal. I mean I have my own laptop and phone, why would I use a work device for that stuff?

> I mean I have my own laptop and phone, why would I use a work device for that stuff?

Because you're traveling for work, and carrying two separate laptops eats into your limited baggage size/weight. Things are marginally better now that everything uses the same standard charger, but not much.

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

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Post by starkeeper »

I'm so excited to interview for a career at Meta!

Also, why are the investors not suing the legs off of Zuck for the whole meta verse debacle? It is a scam and pure fraud. Also dumb name, sue for that too. Should have just renamed it meeme.

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Post by hx8 »

pugio wrote: post #242

Growing up we learned about _Slaughterhouse 5_ and _Cat's Cradle_ by Kurt Vonnegut. But there's not enough discussion or awareness of _Player Piano_. Incredibly prescient. These kinds of dystopic headlines are exactly the kind of thing you'd see in the book.

Player Piano is a 1952 Sci-fi novel by Vonnegut which explores the social and economic impact of automation replacing labor. If I recall correctly (I read this 15+ years ago) it is told from the perspective of one of the last people with an actually useful job, a person who's job it is to fix the machines that automated away jobs.

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

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Post by sgustard »

BeetleB wrote: post #202
cyclopeanutopia wrote: post #114

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I cannot understand how can anyone hold such outrageously antihuman beliefs. Governments, corporations and any other organizations should all exist FOR the people, not the other way around. American-style capitalism truly is a disease.

So, you're saying if I work at a factory, I should be able to use the factory equipment to build my stuff?

I've definitely worked places where I used the company Xerox machine to print up 50,000 "Unionize Now" fliers.

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Post by lazide »

leetrout wrote: post #245
lazide wrote: post #217

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Notably, I’ve had several lawyers sell me out. It’s not the emails, but the phone calls you need to worry about.

Can add any detail to "sell you out"? Was it explicit violation of expected privacy of the conversation?

Active conspiracy with opposing counsel to drag it out, avoid obvious resolutions, etc.

Extremely common with divorce attorneys - and labor law.

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Post by __loam »

darth_avocado wrote: post #194
lotsofpulp wrote: post #76

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White collar firms with a reputation for paying well don’t cheap out on severance. It’s a cheap way to get employees to sign some stuff reducing the risk of lawsuits, plus their unemployment insurance premiums stay lower. It’s only once the business is having a cash crunch or will no longer need to hire competitive candidates that they start letting people go without severance.

> White collar firms with a reputation for paying well don’t cheap out on severance Tell that to Elon Musk and Twitter employees.

Musk saddled that company with an additional billion in debt interest payments every year so they were in a cash crunch.

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

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Post by gerdesj »

lazide wrote: post #258
leetrout wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can add any detail to "sell you out"? Was it explicit violation of expected privacy of the conversation?

Active conspiracy with opposing counsel to drag it out, avoid obvious resolutions, etc. Extremely common with divorce attorneys - and labor law.

Do you have proof or at least some evidence?
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