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Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data (www.reuters.com)
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Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers ​to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents ‌that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters.

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[–] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I wasn't understanding what use keystrokes and mouse-clicks would have without also capturing what's happening on screen. Turn out, they are also capturing that:

The tool, called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), will run on work-related apps and websites and will also take occasional snapshots of the content on employees’ screens

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    FWIW, a lot of websites do pretty much the same thing. It isn't too hard and, for the most part, doesn't require user permission.

    It does if you want full screenshot / video recording, but it doesn't if you just track mouse movements and what is typed and virtually recreate the DOM.

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