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Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-ai-tool-tracks-staff-activity-sparks-concern-2026-4
31•latein•1h ago

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raxxorraxor•1h ago
If you work for meta you shouldn't have a problem with invading the privacy of others.

Of course this is not ok, but you should really quit your job if you have ethical or moral problems with that.

newshackr•2m ago
There isn't exactly a surplus of jobs today. While some may have this option, many do not.
andrewstuart•1h ago
The company is run by lizards in hoodies.
shevy-java•43m ago
It is in a way some kind of modern day slavery. Of course they can always decide to quit, but what if the next company uses the same sniffing strategy? On youtube you can see video clips of indians wearing various glasses to monitor their own manual work procedures. AI has truly become our new overlord, controlled by a few huge companies.
nicman23•13m ago
lol what. you are getting paying it is not slavery
zelphirkalt•5m ago
Some people are forced to work in places, which are dehumanizing through work conditions, whether you get paid for it or not doesn't necessarily tell you much. Of course this is not the case for Mete employees, who should have an easy time finding other employment. But these trends are not limited to Meta. They might find application in some shithole of a badly paid job somewhere, where people have only the choice between living poorly in some slums, or serving their local tech overlord.
keybored•43m ago
I don’t care about Schadenfreude. It’s good that they are making a stink.

I would bang my head against the wall if they either didn’t make a stink or publicly said that, of course the Company is going to monitor me, it’s their hardware[1] and who am I to be anything but a vessel for my employer on Company time etc.

[1] As seen in the comments on the large thread about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948

zelphirkalt•8m ago
You are (hopefully) a human being firstly, and only in some later capacity "a vessel for my employer on Company time". It would do the world some good, if more people remembered, that they are working with people and their decisions affect people.
thedevilslawyer•7m ago
Schadenfreude is exactly what's needed here. The rallying words can be for another set of people/org.
vortegne•29m ago
Small-scale imperial boomerang. You thought that you're building a privacy-destroying machine and this machine will never destroy _your_ privacy?

At some point in the future, a lot of the SV techbros will be hopefully viewed as ghouls with no morals or ethics. This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. If you complain about this and don't quit your job at Meta, you're failing an extremely basic check.

gamerslexus•17m ago
> This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do.

Interesting phrasing. So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something?

notabotiswear•16m ago
>"This makes me super uncomfortable. How do we opt out?"

Karma’s a b*tch, innit?

thedevilslawyer•9m ago
A better reply would have been:

> "This makes me super uncomfortable. How do we opt out?"

>> Opt-out is as simple as sending in your resignation to your manager.

codeulike•6m ago
Is this like a game where we choose the next word?

Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their _______

Pets?

Hairstyles?

yubblegum•4m ago
Oddly enough was watching Colossus: The Forbin Project. One of those mid 70s scifi flicks. At some point, their AI demanded that his creator be under 24/7 audio-visiual surveillance (including bathroom time, yes).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

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