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Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
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Meta, the company built on watching everything its billions of users do online so it can keep them clicking on ragebait and targeted ads, is reportedly now installing surveillance software on employees’ work computers.
Key facts
- Meta is not alone in pursuing such a vision: Anthropic debuted tech capable of doing this in 2024 and OpenAI last year announced “Operator” – a tool that can use a web browser on a human’s behalf
- Microsoft has even created a special type of cloud PC for agents to use
- All imagine that in the not-too-distant future many of them will designate some tasks that they currently undertake with their own brains and fingers on a physical PC to an agent that uses a virtual PC
- Business Insider claims it’s got the memo, which apparently says surveillance will observe workers as they use “work-related applications and URLs” including Gmail, GChat, VCCode, and an internal app
Summary
Newswire that Meta management sent staff a memo informing them that they’ll soon run a new tool called “Model Capability Initiative” that will record their keystrokes, mouse movements, and even take occasional screenshots – all in the name of gathering data the social networking giant can use to build better AI models. Business Insider claims it’s got the memo, which apparently says surveillance will observe workers as they use “work-related applications and URLs” including Gmail, GChat, VCCode, and an internal app called “Metamate”. The document reportedly explains that Meta feels AI models don’t understand how people use computers, so the company needs real-life examples of how meatbags click their way through a working day so it can build agents.