Fun times at Meta, including jobs cuts and mandatory spyware to help train your replacement:
…the company introduced mandatory software onto corporate laptops that tracks what US employees are typing and clicking to gather data to train AI models that execute tasks such as web browsing or organizing folders on a computer as a human would. Opting out is not possible, according to three employees. “Nobody is happy about it,” says a current employee. “And we have no choice.”
The software, known as Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, suddenly turned people across the company into privacy zealots, a legal staffer says. When employees protested the rollout in internal messages, including by referencing Meta’s history of user data breaches, chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth “belittled and berated” the dissenters, one veteran employee says and another confirms. “These billionaires can’t even feign empathy,” the first person says. “The social contract is completely shattered at this point.”