Meta employees freak out at training their replacements
"How do we opt out?" Inside Meta's AI training backlash.
This incredibly late, truncated issue brought to you by United’s (lack of) WiFi. I’m in Washington, D.C. for a couple of days with the Alltogether crew before heading back to the West Coast. I’ll have a couple more issues this week.
Meta’s rollout of a mandatory tool that records employee keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen content to train AI sparked such intense internal backlash that an internal follow-up memo was shared Tuesday, acknowledging “there has been a lot of concern about this,” according to messages I’ve seen.
The follow-up note to Metamates (as Meta calls its workforce) attempted to offer assurances: the tool won’t read files or attachments, screen content will be masked during training so the model can’t memorize it, and raw data will be kept under “very tight access control.”
But the sign-off was less reassuring:
