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Meta’s embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
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Meta is pushing its 78,000 employees to adopt AI tools and factoring their use of the technology into performance reviews.
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SAN FRANCISCO – In an internal post in April, Meta told its US employees that it was making a change that would affect tens of thousands of them.
What employees typed on their computer, how they moved their mouse, where they clicked and what they saw on their screen would be tracked, Meta said. The goal, the company said, was to capture employee data so Meta’s artificial intelligence models could learn “how people actually complete everyday tasks using computers”.
