Surprising news related to Mark Zuckerberg’s company Meta has come to light. According to reports, a leaked audio has revealed that the company secretly monitored its own employees to train Meta’s AI. Mark Zuckerberg justified this surveillance.
According to TOI Tech report, a few days before starting the layoff of 8 thousand employees, Mark Zuckerberg called an all-hands meeting (meeting of all employees).
- In the meeting he said something to the employees which the company had avoided saying publicly.
- Employees’ computers were being used to train AI.
- Employees were chosen because they are smarter than outside contractors.
- Meta did not let its employees know about this, because the news could have spread and other companies would have been alerted.
Zuckerberg justified surveillance
According to the report, Zuckerberg justified this monitoring in the meeting. The company was recording keystrokes, mouse movements and screen activities of its employees through MCI software. Meta hid this from its employees so that other companies would not get to know about it and would not be able to copy it. In the leaked audio, Zuckerberg says that it is not necessary to tell every detail to the employees, for which there are strategic reasons.
Why did Meta take this step?
According to the information, AI companies have been dependent on external contractors for training their AI for the last several years. Meta did it a little differently. Started making data on the working style of its own employees. The company believes that its employees are more intelligent than outside contractors.
Meta feels that if an AI is to code like a senior engineer, it needs to see engineers in action. Meta is also finding that its AI models will be more intelligent than AI models from other companies if they learn from Meta employees.
resentment among employees
It is being said that the employees are angry with Meta’s monitoring. They were not informed about this and were not given the option to disagree with it. It is said that when the employees came to know about this, they expressed their open displeasure. Times Online does not confirm the leaked audio.
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