Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models
Meta plans to capture employees’ mouse movements and keystrokes using a new internal tool to help train its AI models. The company says the data will be used to improve AI agents that perform everyday computer tasks and that safeguards are in place to protect sensitive content.
Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the mouse movements and keystrokes of its own staff in its pursuit to build more capable and efficient artificial intelligence.
The move was first reported by Reuters. When reached for comment, a Meta spokesperson provided the following statement:
“If we’re building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them — things like mouse movements, clicking buttons, and navigating dropdown menus. To help, we’re launching an internal tool that will capture these kinds of inputs on certain applications to help us train our models. There are safeguards in place to protect sensitive content, and the data is not used for any other purpose.”
The development highlights growing privacy questions surrounding the AI industry, as internal corporate communications and activity increasingly become part of a new data supply chain. Last week, it was reported that old startups were being scavenged for their corporate communications — including Slack archives, Jira tickets, and other internal messaging platforms — which could be converted into training data for AI systems.