Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears so determined to win the AI race that he is willing to sacrifice some employee privacy to make it happen.
In a leaked audio recording published by the worker advocacy group More Perfect Union, Zuckerberg purportedly answered an employee’s question about “device monitoring” with a six-minute monologue in which he said Meta employees are very smart and to win the most competitive technology race in history, he would need to collect their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots to make its own AI measure up to its rivals.
“We are using this to feed a very large amount of content into the AI model, so that way it can learn how smart people use computers to accomplish tasks. I think that this is going to be a very big advantage if we can do it,” Zuckerberg purportedly said during an April 30 meeting in which an employee asked about the “top of mind” issue.
I’ve read the code he’s written. (I used to work at Facebook.) He’s an idiot.
He also hasn’t written any code since like 2008, and that shit atrophies.
Beyond this, even if he was a skilled coder at one point, he’s not the name on all the major AI research papers out there. Some of those people work for him and he plans to capture their keystrokes etc as well.
He is stealing the knowledge of the people he has hired to build it to use for hismelf.