Following weeks of irate opposition from employees, Meta announced in an internal memo on Tuesday that it is reducing some aspects of its plan to gather employee mouse movements, keystrokes, and other behaviors for use as AI training data.
The document, written by Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta’s AI model-building Superintelligence Labs section, states that new restrictions will enable staff members to request exemptions from the effort and halt data collection for up to 30 minutes at a time. According to Kasriel, the software’s development team also made “several optimisations” to lessen its effect on computer battery life after staff members expressed dissatisfaction over the program’s excessive data consumption, which resulted in an increase in their home internet usage.
A representative for Meta declined to comment. As part of a larger effort to create AI agents that can carry out tasks on their own, the company announced last month that it was installing new tracking software on US-based employees’ computers to record mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes for use in training its AI models.
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