Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial-intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work ‌tasks autonomously, ⁠the ⁠company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters.

The tool will run on a list of work-related apps and websites and will also take occasional snapshots of the content on employees’ screens for context, according to one memo, posted by a staff AI research scientist on Tuesday in a dedicated ⁠internal channel ‌for the company’s model-building Meta SuperIntelligence Labs team.