Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models

Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data from its own staff’s mouse movements and keystrokes in its efforts to develop more capable and efficient artificial intelligence.

The story that came first Reuters reports thisshows how long it will take for tech companies to find new sources of training data – the lifeblood of AI models that help the programs learn how to perform tasks more effectively and respond to user queries.

When TechCrunch reached out for comment, a Meta spokesperson issued the following statement:

“If we build agents to help people perform everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people Actually use them – things like mouse movements, clicking buttons, and navigating drop-down menus. To help, we’re launching an internal tool that captures these types of inputs for certain applications so we can train our models. Security measures are in place to protect sensitive content and the data is not used for any other purpose.”

This trend appears to reveal the AI ​​industry’s troubling privacy implications, as yesterday’s internal corporate communications increasingly become fodder for a new corporate supply chain. Last week it was reported that old startups were captured for their corporate communications (from Slack archives, Jira tickets, and other internal messaging platforms), which could be turned into AI fuel.