Meta is launching an internal tool to capture employee keystrokes and mouse movements for training AI agents designed to automate computer tasks. The company says safeguards protect sensitive data; the practice reflects a broader industry trend of mining internal corporate communications (Slack, Jira) as training fuel.
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Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models
Meta is treating employee keystrokes and mouse movements as proprietary training fuel for AI agents, extending the industry-wide shift toward mining internal corporate activity to bypass reliance on public-domain training data.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: TechCrunchBY sys://pipeline
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