: Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AI
  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 hours ago

    I see, so the Meta employees have the typical conservative mindset: any misdeed is perfectly fine as long as it doesn’t affect you personally.

    That’s what I thought - it’s probably not just the employees of social media companies who feel this way, but also those at Palantir and similar. Not to mention the “defense” contractors and the like.

    I really wonder how these people can still look at themselves in the mirror.

    • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
      7·
      2 hours ago

      I knew a guy who went to work for palantir a bunch of years ago. Was always friendly at work. I asked him “but what’re you going to do if they do bad stuff, like spying on people?”

      He just shrugged. Didn’t care. The money was good.

      I don’t know if this alone is proof that’s a bad person, but I think it precludes him from being a good one.

  • yumyumsmuncher@feddit.ukEnglish
    51·
    5 hours ago

    Employees working for evil company: “Hey evil company don’t do evil stuff to us”

    Evil company does evil thing to them

    Employees: =O

  • ropatrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Alanis could write an extra line in a particular song about this.

    Or she could write a new song about NIMBYism, hypocrisy etc.

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
    44·
    7 hours ago

    ah so it’s fine when you develop software and tools to spy on your userbase and hell people who aren’t even in your userbase but when it comes to the higher ups at meta using YOUR data to train YOUR AI that’s too far huh?

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    7 hours ago

    obviously a layoff tactic. Their AI group shit the bed after they burned millions on third life the zuckerverse

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      obviously a layoff tactic.

      It sure smells like it, right? But, and I’m repeating myself and others, the important part here is that, if it is a layoff tactic, it’s a horrible one: as per the Dead Sea Effect, the people who leave as a result of declining workplace environment are those most able to leave, i.e the most employable staff, with each round of departures. Thus, the people whom Meta would want to stay around are the people most likely to find, get, and depart for jobs elsewhere. And while Meta are bastards, the mechanics of working in a massive org like that one score really well for skills companies want.

      I wish them luck in this terrible job market, and hope they can find a supportive environment again. We can always do with more smart people working for the greater good instead of against it.

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    Zuck is having all his keystrokes recorded too, right? Right?

    Make sure the AI engineers get that data. Especially the passwords to his and the company’s bank accounts. All his accounts, actually.

    There’s a reason why most businesses don’t implement keystroke logging.

  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    This is a pretty misleading headline. There’s no reporting in the article here about a staff protest, just the same information reporting the change as the rest of news sources, with the Register’s more editorial writing style.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    Hey, I got some bad news for you: a shitload of corporations - and particularly, every one of the FAANG et al orgs - are surveilling the shit out of their workers, and this is not a new development.

    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I was going to say… almost any big org does this now. Tools like slack, teams, whatever… they all allow the bosses to spy on everything the worker bees do.

  • Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    When you sacrifice all morals to work for tech bros so you can get more money I don’t think you have much of a say in things.