Meta will begin tracking the mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes of its US employees to generate high-quality training data for future AI agents, Reuters reports…
Meta’s move comes as major tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Perplexity, have recently introduced new tools that let AI agents take over your computer or web browser to complete certain tasks. Ars’ initial tests of some of these consumer offerings showed a surprising ability to convert many natural-language commands into virtual actions, with some significant limitations and brittleness regarding long-term automated tasks.
Meta has also reportedly begun setting AI usage goals among some employees, including coders and engineers. The company is also reportedly planning to start laying off up to 10 percent of its global workforce starting in May.
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- Incredibly dystopian. Of course this won’t be used for workplace surveillance at all…
- Step 5. Meta sells this data to advertising companies to display ads to worker/consumers… Profit…Source [web-archive]
Feudal serfdom. I keep call AI this and they keep giving me reasons.
They’re not smart computers, it’s all of our data give agency. It’s us sold back to us by those who happen to own data centers and platforms that were never valuable in the first place without us.
Cliche, but maybe we should wake the fuck up … if not now, it could be very soon … we’re in one of those historical moments not merely the gradual progress of society.