Meta is to scale back some aspects of its plan to track employees’ mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions to train AI models, Reuters reported, after weeks of anger from staff members.
A memo to staff from Stephane Kasriel, a vice president at Meta’s AI unit, Superintelligence Labs, said employees would now be able to pause data collection for up to 30 minutes at a time and could request exemptions from the programme, the report said.
Kasriel said the team creating the Model Capability Initiative programme has introduced optimisations to reduce its effect on computer battery life, after staff reportedly complained that the tool was gathering so much data that it was causing their home internet usage to spike.
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