Hey Meta workers, are you getting paid for those keystrokes?
TL;DR
No longer content to subsume recognizable intellectual properties, the majority of the indexed internet and books (basically all of them), AI will apparently now begin devouring its own workforce. A report in Reuters alleged that the keystrokes, mouse movements and clicks of Meta's workforce are to be captured for the purposes of training AI — something the company's communications department was happy to confirmed as accurate! In a cheery missive, a company spokesperson told Engadget that "If we're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them [...] we’re launching an internal tool that will capture these kinds of inputs on certain applications to help us train our models." All this leads one to ask the obvious question: hey, what the fuck? The nature of at-will employment in the United States is suc.
Nauti's Take
Meta's transparency about capturing employee inputs is unusual and worth acknowledging — most companies doing this wouldn't say a word. But the core question remains unanswered: are employees compensated for this data contribution, and is opting out genuinely possible?
How Meta handles consent here could set a precedent — positive or harmful — for AI training practices across the industry.
Summary
No longer content to subsume recognizable intellectual properties, the majority of the indexed internet and books (basically all of them), AI will apparently now begin devouring its own workforce. A report in Reuters alleged that the keystrokes, mouse movements and clicks of Meta's workforce are to be captured for the purposes of training AI — something the company's communications department was happy to confirmed as accurate!
In a cheery missive, a company spokesperson told Engadget that "If we're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them [... ] we’re launching an internal tool that will capture these kinds of inputs on certain applications to help us train our models.
" All this leads one to ask the obvious question: hey, what the fuck? The nature of at-will employment in the United States is suc
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