Meta Pauses AI Training Programme After Internal Data Leak: Report
Meta said it is investigating after a security lapse exposed employee prompts, conversations and performance data across 45,000 internal tables.
- On Monday, Meta paused its Model Capability Initiative following an internal security breach that exposed sensitive employee data across the entire company.
- Launched in April, the program tracked keystrokes and mouse movements to train AI models; last month, more than 1,600 employees signed a petition warning the effort introduced security and regulatory risks.
- Monday's security notice indicated exposure across 45,000 hive tables, with leaked data including "full prompts and transcriptions, private conversations, people and performance data," classified as a SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 5.
- Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth admitted the program's implementation fell short of privacy standards, while a Meta spokesperson said, "We're pausing it while we investigate."
- This incident marks the latest in a series of AI-related cybersecurity issues for Meta, following an earlier flaw this month that allowed unauthorized Instagram account hijacking.
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To train AI, Meta introduced a tracking software in April, which registers the work of its employees. According to reports about a data leak, the company suspends the initiative for the time being.
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