Employees at Facebook parent Meta are distributing flyers internally that encourage staff to sign a petition protesting software that tracks their mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI software, according to multiple reports – tools that Meta says are being funded in part by firing thousands of human staff.
The flyers, distributed atop toilet paper dispensers, in meeting rooms and on vending machines, ask, “Don’t want to work at the Employee Data Extraction Factory?”, Reuters reported.
The petition states that “it should not be the norm that companies of any size are permitted to exploit their employees by nonconsensually extracting their data for the purposes of Al training”, according to a Wired report.
Internal protest
The organisers or the petition have called on Meta to respect their right under US law to “discuss, organise, and advocate for better working conditions”.
