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Posted by dlx 2 days ago

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training(www.reuters.com)
Alt link: https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/exclusive-meta-st...
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phendrenad2 2 days ago|
I can't imagine a more useless dataset to collect, proving that Meta might have reached the peak of the graph of (reach/grasp)/time and the numerator is about to plummet spectacularly.
Maufrais 2 days ago||
Seems like Skan AI's solution. They have a few Fortune 500 companies as clients doing exactly the same thing as Meta - capturing keyboard and mouse clicks to ultimately do next level process automation.
jcims 2 days ago||
I wonder if there's a market for a little usb fob that does nothing but meander the mouse cursor about the screen in a path that, upon proper rendering, would appear to be a ...
stego-tech 1 day ago||
At some point, this level of data collection becomes toxic to the survival of the company. I'm floored that Legal keeps approving this given the stakes in future lawsuits.

Terminated for under-performance? Subpoena the surveillance data. Get their data scientists in for a deposition to explain the algorithm and schema.

All it takes is one disgruntled employee with deep enough pockets and a large enough axe to grind to turn this training data into nuclear waste that poisons the company top to bottom, but I'm confident nothing will change until that happens, at which point the current crop of leaders will already have their moneybags and have fucked off safely into the sunset.

zeruch 1 day ago||
This is....ridiculous. Does Meta also capture it's CEOs movements with such fidelity?
ungreased0675 2 days ago||
Could a few of the smart people there please find a way to poison this data set? Before something similar ends up on my work computer.
ok_dad 2 days ago||
Relevant story (Manna)

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

ramon156 2 days ago||
What would be the wxact opposite of Meta as a company? Small, privacy focused, HN blacklisted at work? Am I missing something?
clapthewind 1 day ago|
Low pay, to be fair.
deadbabe 2 days ago||
From company metrics I have found that developers who make a lot of mouse movements correlate with weaker performance reviews. Something to think about.
type0 2 days ago|
Do they get each own Meta ray ban grasses as well that they have to wear at all time even in bathrooms?
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