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dagmx 6 minutes ago [-]
This is going to be a huge chilling factor for employees. You’d no longer be able to disent, or discuss anything non-work related with even the slightest expectation of privacy.
Yes they could have accessed logs before but there’s a difference between directed checking after incidents and active surveillance at scale.
simmerup 2 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, if at any time Mark can ask Meta AI ‘which of my employees insulted me today’ for example, that’s wild
jmull 42 minutes ago [-]
I like to imagine they’ll mostly capture meta employees using AIs to do work.
Then they’ll deploy models trained on this, and begin capturing employees using AIs that are good at using AIs to do work.
Repeat a few times and they’ll start capturing the keystrokes from people mashing their heads into keyboards with dispair and exclaiming, “Why can’t these models do anything anymore!!”
arjvik 38 minutes ago [-]
While it would be a hilarious failure mode to encounter, this is actually a good thing!
These models already have the skills that humans were using them for, so either by training the models to use subagents or simply inlining the work done by the AI, you have a much easier time training the model to perform tasks from a human-distribution. The humans have done the work of making the human-distribution look more like an AI distribution.
bwestergard 13 minutes ago [-]
Doesn't this assume that what humans are current doing with LLM agents is working out? Isn't it a bit early to bet on that to this degree?
>data collected would not be used for performance assessments or any other purpose besides model training
And you expect Meta employees, of all people, to believe this?
anonym00se1 31 minutes ago [-]
In the midst of their 4th straight year of layoffs with another looming 20% cut coming, I'm guessing Meta employees are a tiny but suspicious.
orangecoffee 52 minutes ago [-]
Does not matter? I think the high compensation will be what will drive the compliance.
jtemplestein 20 minutes ago [-]
I wonder if this screen + mouse + keyboard (+ camera + speaker + mic) interface is really the right level of abstraction to model a “digital entity”
Sure, you can do everything a human can, but it also seems VERY inefficient
As an alternative, maybe you could just do network in/out?
evanjrowley 14 minutes ago [-]
It's the same approach as Windows Recall, but all data remains sovereign to the company generating it.
loeg 24 minutes ago [-]
For context, when the article says "a list of work-related apps and websites," this includes Google properties like gmail, docs, etc, and social media websites like Facebook and Instagram, with no provision for excluding personal accounts.
dist-epoch 4 minutes ago [-]
You know you are at work and monitored.
You can browser personal accounts from your phone.
tmp10423288442 20 minutes ago [-]
No one intelligent should be logging into their personal accounts on their work devices in any case - it's always been the case (at least in the US) that companies can do whatever invasive scanning they want on devices they own.
fidotron 21 minutes ago [-]
Meta going all in on their brand with this.
Someone had to do it, distasteful though it may be. Could be quite hilarious what it learns in the process.
dist-epoch 3 minutes ago [-]
That people watch TikTok instead of Instagram reels. Quite embarrassing.
rvz 11 minutes ago [-]
Meta can even afford to destroy themselves and their own employees.
More proof that they do not care about you at all. This is Meta's way of moving fast and destroying everything at all costs.
bradlys 49 minutes ago [-]
Data collection isn’t new. The training is.
shimman 14 minutes ago [-]
You don't think collecting this type of intimate information about your employees as a major violation of the social contract?
Yes they could have accessed logs before but there’s a difference between directed checking after incidents and active surveillance at scale.
Then they’ll deploy models trained on this, and begin capturing employees using AIs that are good at using AIs to do work.
Repeat a few times and they’ll start capturing the keystrokes from people mashing their heads into keyboards with dispair and exclaiming, “Why can’t these models do anything anymore!!”
These models already have the skills that humans were using them for, so either by training the models to use subagents or simply inlining the work done by the AI, you have a much easier time training the model to perform tasks from a human-distribution. The humans have done the work of making the human-distribution look more like an AI distribution.
And you expect Meta employees, of all people, to believe this?
Sure, you can do everything a human can, but it also seems VERY inefficient
As an alternative, maybe you could just do network in/out?
You can browser personal accounts from your phone.
Someone had to do it, distasteful though it may be. Could be quite hilarious what it learns in the process.
More proof that they do not care about you at all. This is Meta's way of moving fast and destroying everything at all costs.