Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · BBC Technology
Meta pauses worker monitoring for AI teaching due to privacy fears
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Meta has paused a new company-wide program of tracking its employees' computer usage which has been plagued by internal frustration.
Key facts
- In addition to the tracking program, frustration inside Meta has grown as it has done extensive layoffs, and reorganised many employees and their work around AI initiatives, on which the company
- A Meta spokesman confirmed to the BBC that the program, named internally the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), was "on pause for now" as the company investigates the issue
- The pause follows weeks of blow-back from workers at the company, led by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, to being tracked at work
- That was an attempt at damage control," one current employee told the BBC
Summary
The program was started only two months ago as part of an effort by Meta to gather data on how people used computers, including mouse clicks and keystrokes, that could be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. It was met immediately with upset from employees who were to have their every online action at work tracked and recorded, but also concerned about where the data was going and how it would be protected. Meta halted the program on Monday after realising some of the collected data had been left potentially accessible to anyone inside the company. A Meta spokesman confirmed to the BBC that the program, named internally the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), was "on pause for now" as the company investigates the issue.