{"id":1034852,"date":"2026-09-12T11:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034852"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:01:21","slug":"eye-of-sauron-super-uncomfortable-why-did-meta-employees-revolt-against-its-ai-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/eye-of-sauron-super-uncomfortable-why-did-meta-employees-revolt-against-its-ai-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eye of Sauron\u2019, \u2018super uncomfortable\u2019: Why did Meta employees revolt against its AI experiment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s ambition to build more powerful AI hit an unexpected roadblock, and that is not from the competitors, but from its own employees.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the company introduced an internal programme called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), specifically designed to collect data from tens of thousands of employees to help train AI models. It tracked details such as keystrokes and mouse movements, allowing AI to learn how humans operate computers, including their everyday actions. But the entire initiative faced immense resistance from employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s ambition to build more powerful AI hit an unexpected roadblock, and that is not from the competitors, but from its own employees. Recently, the company introduced an internal programme called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), specifically designed to collect data from tens of thousands of employees to help train AI models. It tracked details such as keystrokes and mouse movements, allowing AI to learn how humans operate computers, including their everyday actions. But the entire initiative faced immense resistance from employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034856,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034852\/revisions\/1034856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}