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Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio (www.theregister.com)
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears so determined to win the AI race that he is willing to sacrifice some employee privacy to make it happen.

In a leaked audio recording published by the worker advocacy group More Perfect Union, Zuckerberg purportedly answered an employee's question about "device monitoring" with a six-minute monologue in which he said Meta employees are very smart and to win the most competitive technology race in history, he would need to collect their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots to make its own AI measure up to its rivals.

“We are using this to feed a very large amount of content into the AI model, so that way it can learn how smart people use computers to accomplish tasks. I think that this is going to be a very big advantage if we can do it,” Zuckerberg purportedly said during an April 30 meeting in which an employee asked about the "top of mind" issue.

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[–] lmagitem@lemmy.zip 20 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What's crazy is that he could just have asked for volunteers and add a pay raise alongside agreement in participating in that crap and I'm sure half the company would be doing it willingly. Instead he just pissed off everyone and will likely get data poisoning from maliciously compliant employees, and lose highly skilled employees.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Yup. "Meta Pioneers" or some shit.

Hell I always assumed that my work computer had a keylogger and was instrumented to shit, I might well have taken 10% at my old job.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

data poisoning from maliciously compliant employees

Even if everyone cooperated faithfully and diligently fully in on the plan of being rendered redundant in a few years, what do they even have?

Just the generic motions of work. As soon as your business model shifts, or some interface changes, or you run into a problem that you haven't seen before...

They're cannibalizing themselves. That's the only way you can describe it. An organization that's hollowing itself out with management aware it won't last (or delusional enough to believe reality will never catch up with them).

If they're doing this with their infrastructure, how much does anyone want to bet they're playing fast and loose with their budgets and accounting as well?

This all screams Enron/Worldcomm waiting to happen.