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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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Maybe they're building a simulation of the rich lives and behaviors of white collar office people in the early 21th century, with breathtaking detail? I couldn't imagine life without my unique keystrokes and mouse movements.

Like a museum exhibit?

But you can put on 3D goggles, maybe there's even TTS narration.

Some call it museumverse.

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

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Are they merging with Palantir any time soon?

Meta people used to protest and demand Thiel be removed from the board all the time, in the 2010s. But it’s probably not like that anymore.

Everyone that’s left either buys into the culture or is stuck due to immigration

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

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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.

In my experience at other companies recruiters and pretty much no one else has any idea that someone has been blacklisted, until you do all of your interviews and tell HR to hire that person and that's when they tell you the person is on some kind of shit list and we can't hire them. That was an awkward conversation with someone who was basically told we'll be making an offer soon.

Huh. What do you reckon would have happened if you'd hired them anyway?

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

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Meta forces employees to use personal Facebook accounts at work.

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They absolutely do, wtf are you talking about.

Also people use their work accounts and laptops to read their w2 and other sensitive info.

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

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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.

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.

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

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In my experience at other companies recruiters and pretty much no one else has any idea that someone has been blacklisted, until you do all of your interviews and tell HR to hire that person and that's when they tell you the person is on some kind of shit list and we can't hire them. That was an awkward conversation with someone who was basically told we'll be making an offer soon.

Huh. What do you reckon would have happened if you'd hired them anyway?

What? Hiring is a contract between employer (company entity) and employee. No individual "you" can hire anybody except through the company's official process. If HR says "no we won't extend an offer," a lowly HM extending an offer would be clear-cut fraud.

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

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I wonder if this screen + mouse + keyboard (+ camera + speaker + mic) interface is really the right level of abstraction to model a “digital entity” Sure, you can do everything a human can, but it also seems VERY inefficient As an alternative, maybe you could just do network in/out?

for agent agents we have ACP [0] surely their time would be better spent builing this sort of abstraction for computer use then simple teaching an AI to use a mouse?

The computer UI is the way it is because that is optimal for humans, if your plan is to replace humans why not just replace the whole stack os and all to something these models already know how to use?

[0] https://zed.dev/blog/acp-registry

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

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After all the layoffs, labeling people as underperformers while laying off, etc. can they stoop any lower? Why TF would anyone in their right mind would want to join this company?

They pay well. That’s it. That’s the only argument for working for facebook. They don’t add anything beneficial to society. They exist to sell ads.

Their VR tech is pretty nice. No one sells anything anywhere near as cheap and good as the Quest 3S.

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

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Meta forces employees to use personal Facebook accounts at work.

This hasn’t been true for 8+ years.

Having both a personal and work Facebook account is against the rules and may lead to getting the account suspended.
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