Meta Pauses AI Tracking Program After Data Leak

Meta Halts Employee Data Tracking After Sensitive Info Reportedly Exposed

The company wanted to use the controversial program to help train its AI.

Meta Paused Its AI Keystroke Tracking Program Cause Internal Leak

Meta just hit pause on one of its most controversial internal programs. The company was collecting every keystroke its employees typed to train AI — and then accidentally exposed that data to the rest of the company. Meta’s plan to build smarter AI by watching how its own staff use computers seemed straightforward on paper. But the Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, has now run into two problems at once: a growing employee revolt and a serious…

Meta pauses employee monitoring program after data protections fail

An extensive program at Meta to gather a wide range of data from employees to train its AI model has been frozen after employees reportedly broke through its guardrails and accessed restricted data, and then did so again after Meta claimed to have fixed the vulnerability. Whether or not the data collection by the $201 billion owner of Facebook was a good idea, analysts argue that the data protections deployed were woefully inadequate, given the …

Meta's Program That Spies on Every Employee's Computer Just Blew Up in Its Face in Spectacular Fashion

A Meta initiative to spy on employee's computers to gather data for training has caused an internal leak at the company.

Meta hits pause on tracking employee keystrokes to train AI after internal leak

Just two months after Meta announced plans to track employee keystrokes and mouse movements to train its AI models, the company said it would pause the program after an alleged internal leak. According to a screenshot obtained by Business Insider, employees’ private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions were accessible across the company. On a scale of 0 to 5—0 being the most severe—the incident was classified as a SEV (severity) 2…

Meta suspends controversial worker monitoring program: Here's what went wrong

Facebook parent company Meta has put a halt to its controversial employee-monitoring program that was supposed to be used for training of artificial intelligence systems.The social media technology giant paused the program, known as...