{"id":75024,"date":"2026-04-22T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=75024"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:39:16","slug":"meta-to-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-for-ai-training-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=75024","title":{"rendered":"Meta to Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes for AI Training Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/meta-ai\/articles\/exclusive-meta-start-capturing-employee-162745587.html\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees\u2019 computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen ?by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The tool, called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), will run on work-related apps and websites and will also take occasional snapshots of the content on employees\u2019 screens, according to one of the ?memos, posted by a staff AI research scientist on Tuesday in a channel for the company&#8217;s model-building Meta SuperIntelligence Labs team.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose, according to the memo, was to improve the company&#8217;s AI models in areas where they struggle to replicate how humans interact ?with computers, like choosing from dropdown menus and using keyboard shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is where all Meta employees can help our models get better simply by doing their daily work,&#8221; it said.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Reuters: Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees\u2019 computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen ?by Reuters. The tool, called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rise-of-the-machines","category-surveillance","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75025,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75024\/revisions\/75025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}