Meta employees protest laptop surveillance for AI training (opens in new tab)

Meta is facing an internal backlash over laptop-monitoring software linked to AI training, according to WIRED and outlets citing its reporting. Employees objected to software that would collect workplace computer-use data to train AI systems.Highlights:Internal reach: The protest circulated through an internal employee post, not a public petition, and reached nearly 20,000 coworkers, Futurism said, citing WIRED.Privacy objection: The engineer wrote that screen scraping felt like an invasion o...