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Meta will monitor employees' mouse and keyboard activity to train AI agents, exposing the scarcity of real-world interaction data for AI development

Meta will monitor employees' mouse and keyboard activity to train AI agents, exposing the scarcity of real-world interaction data for AI development

Meta is planning to track employees' computer activity—mouse clicks, keyboard inputs, and screen interactions—to collect training data for AI agents (AI systems that can take actions on their own). This shift highlights that AI developers struggle to find enough real, diverse examples of how people actually work.

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