Meta to track employee mouse movements and keystrokes for AI training
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Meta is implementing the MCI program to record employee actions in the US. Click data and screenshots will be used to train AI agents.
Meta is introducing software to track employee activity on work computers in the US to train artificial intelligence models. This is reported by Reuters, writes UNN.
Details
The tool will record mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and periodically take screenshots.
This refers to the Model Capability Initiative (MCI) program, which integrates into work applications and websites.
This is where all Meta employees can help our models improve simply by doing their daily work
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The goal is to teach AI to reproduce real human-computer interaction, including working with menus and keyboard shortcuts.
Company strategy
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said the company is stepping up data collection as part of an initiative to create autonomous AI agents.
The vision is for our agents to do the work first and foremost
Meta states that the collected data will not be used to evaluate employee performance. At the same time, the company did not specify what types of information would not be collected, noting only the existence of measures to protect confidential data.
The initiative is part of a broader trend in the technology sector, where companies are more actively implementing AI to automate workflows.