Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AI [Yahoo! Finance]
Meta Platforms, Inc. - Class A (META)
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Source: Yahoo! Finance
The company, which owns Instagram and Facebook, told workers on Tuesday that a new tool will run on Meta's computers and internal apps, logging their activity to be used as training data for AI technology. A Meta spokesman told the BBC: "If we're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them." "The data is not used for any other purpose," he said, adding that the tool has "safeguards in place to protect sensitive content". But one Meta employee, who asked not to be identified, said having their smallest actions on a computer being used to train AI model as workers expect a slew of additional job cuts feels "very dystopian". "This company has become obsessed with AI," they told the BBC.. Another person who recently left the company said the tracking tool is "just the latest way they're shoving AI down everyone's throat". Meta has already laid off around 2,000 employees this year in smal
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