Meta's Program That Spies on Every Employee's Computer Just Blew Up in Its Face in Spectacular Fashion

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-program-spies-employees-backfires

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48572804

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programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 93d

“We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards, and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we’re pausing it while we investigate,” a spokesperson told outlets.

"Pwetty pweese, do not make ewows and pwotect the employee infowmation"

for employee in company:
  copy_information(employee.data, protected_folder)
  compress(protected_folder)
the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 93d (1 reply)

gEt OfF oF fAcEbO0K l0SeRs... be brave just say NO... fuck keeping in touch with grandmal. Just don't.... stop now. you fucking yankkkee pig dog narcissist. Fuck big teeeccchhhh

Twipped@l.twipped.social · 6 pts · 93d

This is about employees, not users

the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 93d

all we do is loser shit....

danielquinn@lemmy.ca · -16 pts · 93d (3 replies)

Funny, but not AI-related.

friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 93d (1 reply)

The program, dubbed the Model Capability Initiative, was intended to gather data so Meta’s AI models could learn “how people actually complete everyday tasks using computers.”

danielquinn@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 93d

Fair. I read this as more of a epic security failure and wasn't considering the motivations behind the dumb system in the first place.

the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 93d

AI is corpo nonsense. it is one hundoe percent related asf... down votes earned down votes recieved " ummmm actualy.... " gawd dammit