Meta won't track its workers' clicks - but only for half an hour at a time
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Meta is scaling back its plan to start tracking its employees' computer activity, according to an internal memo sent on Tuesday.
Key facts
It follows weeks of backlash from employees, including some who started a petition against the move which now has more than 1,500 signatures
An internal memo
seen by Reuters
was reportedly authored by Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta's Superintelligence Labs unit
During the initial announcement of the tool, called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), Meta told the BBC: "If they're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers
Another person who recently left the company told the BBC the tracking tool was "the latest way they're shoving AI down everyone's throat
Summary
In April the company received criticism from its own staff after it announced a new tool would log their keystrokes and mouse clicks to train its AI models. Now, new controls will allow employees to pause the data collection for "up to 30 minutes at a time" as well as request exemptions from the initiative altogether. It follows weeks of backlash from employees, including some who started a petition against the move which now has more than 1,500 signatures. During the initial announcement of the tool, called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), Meta told the BBC: "If they're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, their models need real examples of how people use them.