Meta Tracked Keystrokes. Employees Called It Dystopian.
FrequencyMay 11, 202600:05:09

Meta Tracked Keystrokes. Employees Called It Dystopian.

Meta's Model Capability Initiative captured employee keystrokes and mouse clicks across hundreds of sites and apps — Google, LinkedIn, Slack, GitHub — with the stated goal of teaching its AI to use computers. When employees found out, some called it "dystopian." In internal messages that Meta was also tracking.

Communication around the launch was minimal, which is its own choice. Internal concerns included exposure of passwords, immigration status, health data, and family information. The tracked site list reportedly included ChatGPT and Claude before both were removed. Chuck and Jenni break down what this tells us about organizations that move faster than employees can process — and what psychological safety actually means when your complaints are part of the dataset.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/22/meta-tracks-employee-usage-on-google-linkedin-ai-training-project.html