By all means, they have the right to do so, since those are their assets. For what it's worth, it will give them a good dataset for their agent to improve integration with the browser and operating system.

Martin Niemöller's "First They Came" fits perfectly and it shows how hypocritical it is to approach the subject of ai training only when it applies to you. What a Wonderful World!

The engineers who implement this should be ashamed of themselves.

I mean - uh - gotta find all the signals that may exist.

I...admire the diligence

‘Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said the data collected would not be used for performance assessments or any other purpose’

Horseshit.

1. Employees are being asked to train AI to replace them.

2. Performance assessments will 100% be impacted. No question.

Thinking back on the OTT interview experience that Facebook helped pioneer, imagine making it through that, getting paid a massive sum of money BUT barely getting by on it because of the location, then they drop this crap on you?

Big Brother is always watching.

1984 level sickening.

Hey fellow engineers.

I know you've long been hypnotized by libertarianism and the cult of the individual.

Maybe it's time you reconsider in light of the overwhelming evidence that the capitalist class is, in fact, not your friend.

The only known way for workers to assert their rights is collective action. Alone, you are weak and replacable. Together, we are strong.

It's time for a proper tech worker's union, to give us some fangs to claw back our dignity with.

Meta should go and pound sand.

Capitalist tech bros have lost their marbles at this point.

Fucking insane.

Optimizing ourselves to death.

Capitalism is asleep at the wheel with its foot stuck on the gas pedal.