Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

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TL;DR: Meta is screen-recording employee work sessions to train AI models, triggering internal revolt.

Key Takeaways

• Captures activity in Gmail, GChat, and Metamate; phones and non-work apps excluded for now
• Employees building surveillance products are now subject to the same surveillance they ship
• EU employees face far milder version due to legal protections US workers lack

Discussion

• [moregrist]: Pushback is good regardless of schadenfreude; normalization is the real threat
• [throw0101a]: Classic leopards-eating-faces irony applied precisely here
• [spprashant]: Training AI to click browser tabs all day is a misuse of the technology
• [Havoc]: Big Tech built on invasive tracking; karma is arriving on schedule
• Community united in irony; debate was whether employees deserve sympathy or should quit on principle.

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