Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

Article

• Meta installing tracking software on US employee computers
• Captures mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes for AI agent training
• Company claims data won’t be used for performance reviews
• Aims to build AI that can autonomously perform work tasks

Discussion

• Employees have no real expectation of privacy; chilling effect on dissent and personal use
• Cynicism that Meta employees of all people would trust the ‘not for performance reviews’ promise
• Recursive humor: model trained on humans using AI to do work, then on AI using AI
• Scope includes Gmail, Google Docs, social media with no personal-account carveout

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