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Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak
- Havoc 4mo agoKeyloggers collect sensitive data? Some really sharp insight coming out of FB HQ here Stupid plan yields stupid results
- black_13 4mo ago[dead]
- kamyarg 4mo agoGood. Hope this initiative fails spectacularly.
- Littice 4mo agoUsing employees instead of contractors because they produce higher-quality data sounds less clever after you leak the employees' data.
- jdpigeon 4mo agoThis leak coming after all the reassurances that the intitiative passed privacy review and wouldn't be a leak risk is soo damning. Not only have the employees lost faith in the executive's integrity, but their basic competency as well.
- snootypoot 4mo ago[flagged]
- Llamamoe 4mo agoDoes anyone, ever, have any faith in the integrity or competence of executives, these days? Because it seems to me that most people would outright prefer them to burn but are powerless against the increasing abuses and betrayals of employees.
- notnaut 4mo ago20% of the people will always just agree with the guy with the microphone.
- mannanj 4mo agoseems to me that 20% of people agreeing, and the remaining 80% staying silent (or 79% with 1% vocal), leads to the abuse cycle continuing. The silent majority creates a false feeling of large consensus and inability to know the reality.
- anecd4t4 4mo agoIn the history of humanity management has never been competent at scale. Entropy gives rise to signal attenuation which gives rise to generational churn which collapses empires and businesses All these people had was ZIRP and preferential taxation, and the even more ignorant masses imaginations to manipulate The ability has never been there because no real goal is there to build around; endless forever existence of Facebook and Meta? So like with Christianity, 2000 years from now people need to keep preaching to Saint Zuck's mind palace? That's not a real goal. Most SaaS companies existed only to serve a political meme of "create jobs".
- 12_throw_away 4mo agoWhether you're a consumer, employee, or enterprise IT, in today's data-rich world, it can be difficult to tell if your information is really being stored securely. I'm therefore proud to announce my new, AI-powered startup to help you navigate the modern privacy landscape. It's called Nope™. If you're concerned about privacy, make sure Nope™ is the first thing you think of. It's easy to get started! Whenever you find yourself asking, "Is this company really storing my data securely?", your next thought should be: "Nope™"
- CoastalCoder 4mo agoAsk your local unemployment benefits office if Nope™ is right for you!
- timmytokyo 4mo agoIt really makes you wonder why anyone still wants to work there. The only reason I can imagine people are staying is because they're afraid they can't get work anywhere else.
- hawaiianbrah 4mo agoIt’s a terrible job market and they pay notoriously well.
- ss4fff 4mo agoNo, the right framing is they are paid what they deserve. The premium they get paid is for being treating like shit. Anyone who has any sympathy for them is an absolute idiot.
- patch_dev 4mo agoWhy aren't they deserving of sympathy? Crazy take and a massive lack of empathy.
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- stiglitz 4mo agoFacebook is widely thought to cause significant societal damage; anyone who thinks so, would probably consider employees of Meta to be the ones lacking empathy.
- pfannkuchen 4mo agoSo Facebook products are definitely not good for humans to use, sort of like cane sugar is not good for humans to use, but I wonder if you also think this about, I dunno, banks? They do vastly more predatory stuff with much bigger impacts. Nobody’s Facebook usage is affecting how much housing costs, for example. But for some reason there seems to be more outrage at social media companies. Odd!
- snootypoot 4mo agoi still laugh thinking that once, during my life, working for facebook was coveted and respected.
- ChrisArchitect 4mo agoRelated: Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623721
- jcgrillo 4mo agoayy lmao play stupid games win stupid prizes
- fsuts 4mo agoThe tried and trusted “Move fast and break things”…
- lenkite 4mo agoDoes Mark Zuckerberg have his keystrokes tracked ?
- metamate100000 4mo agoNo, he is excluded. So is Alexandr.
- djmips 4mo agoMeta sounds incredibly dystopian. Like a Black Mirror episode in real life!
- sanjayjc 4mo ago"The incident was classified as a SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being the most severe." Only 2?
- olyjohn 4mo agoYeah it only affects a few plebs.
- consensus1 4mo ago[dead]
- throwyawayyyy 4mo agoHmm, also saying the scale is 0 to 5 is... something. In my experience, which was a while ago, no one cares about SEV 3, and I only ever saw SEV 4 used as a placeholder or TODO list. Never came across a SEV 5 in the world. It's really "SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 3".