Meta halts worker tracking for AI training due to privacy fears

[highplainsdem]

Source: BBC

The program was started only two months ago as part of an effort by Meta to gather data on how people used computers, including mouse clicks and keystrokes, that could be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.

It was met immediately with upset from employees who were to have their every online action at work tracked and recorded, but also concerned about where the data was going and how it would be protected.

Meta halted the program on Monday after realising some of the collected data had been left potentially accessible to anyone inside the company.

A Meta spokesman confirmed to the BBC that the program, named internally the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), was "on pause for now" as the company investigates the issue.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq615g3z36po

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It's good that they stopped it, but their reason for doing so shows how clueless and incompetent they are.

[GenThePerservering]

1. I'm beginning to avoid contract work with Meta

I do assignments for data gathering, etc., sometimes for Meta, but despite really wanting the work I'm beginning to take assignments from just about anybody else.

And get off Fakebook, people.

[Karasu]

2. Fucking idiots. Anyone could have told them (and indeed did tell them) this, but big tech has zero fucks to give privacy

save for when it affects their bottom line.