Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-training-data-leak-exposed-employee-activity-across-company-2026-6

by petethomas • 1 month ago

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kamyarg• 1 month ago

Good.

Hope this initiative fails spectacularly.

Littice• 1 month ago

Using employees instead of contractors because they produce higher-quality data sounds less clever after you leak the employees' data.

Havoc• 1 month ago

Keyloggers collect sensitive data? Some really sharp insight coming out of FB HQ here

Stupid plan yields stupid results

jdpigeon• 1 month ago

This leak coming after all the reassurances that the intitiative passed privacy review and wouldn't be a leak risk is soo damning.

Not only have the employees lost faith in the executive's integrity, but their basic competency as well.

Llamamoe• 1 month ago

Does anyone, ever, have any faith in the integrity or competence of executives, these days? Because it seems to me that most people would outright prefer them to burn but are powerless against the increasing abuses and betrayals of employees.

notnaut• 30 days ago

20% of the people will always just agree with the guy with the microphone.

anecd4t4• 29 days ago

In the history of humanity management has never been competent at scale. Entropy gives rise to signal attenuation which gives rise to generational churn which collapses empires and businesses

All these people had was ZIRP and preferential taxation, and the even more ignorant masses imaginations to manipulate

The ability has never been there because no real goal is there to build around; endless forever existence of Facebook and Meta? So like with Christianity, 2000 years from now people need to keep preaching to Saint Zuck's mind palace?

That's not a real goal. Most SaaS companies existed only to serve a political meme of "create jobs".

12_throw_away• 1 month ago

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CoastalCoder• 1 month ago

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timmytokyo• 1 month ago

It really makes you wonder why anyone still wants to work there. The only reason I can imagine people are staying is because they're afraid they can't get work anywhere else.

hawaiianbrah• 1 month ago

It’s a terrible job market and they pay notoriously well.

ss4fff• 1 month ago

No, the right framing is they are paid what they deserve.

The premium they get paid is for being treating like shit.

Anyone who has any sympathy for them is an absolute idiot.

2OEH8eoCRo0• 1 month ago

Money. It's not complicated.

snootypoot• 1 month ago

i still laugh thinking that once, during my life, working for facebook was coveted and respected.

ChrisArchitect• 1 month ago

Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623721

jcgrillo• 1 month ago

ayy lmao play stupid games win stupid prizes

fsuts• 1 month ago

The tried and trusted “Move fast and break things”…

lenkite• 1 month ago

Does Mark Zuckerberg have his keystrokes tracked ?

metamate100000• 29 days ago

No, he is excluded. So is Alexandr.

djmips• 30 days ago

Meta sounds incredibly dystopian. Like a Black Mirror episode in real life!

sanjayjc• 30 days ago

"The incident was classified as a SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being the most severe."

Only 2?

olyjohn• 29 days ago

Yeah it only affects a few plebs.

throwyawayyyy• 29 days ago

Hmm, also saying the scale is 0 to 5 is... something. In my experience, which was a while ago, no one cares about SEV 3, and I only ever saw SEV 4 used as a placeholder or TODO list. Never came across a SEV 5 in the world. It's really "SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 3".

Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak

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