Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio

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ai + ml Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools 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. Meta did not reply to an email from The Register seeking comment and has not confirmed the authenticity of the audio clip, but a company spokesperson confirmed in April that Meta would monitor employees to train AI. Meta's tracking tool is called Model Capability Initiative, according to reports. The audio was posted the same day Meta announced 8,000 job cuts. It captured Zuckerberg's thoughts on the news, first reported by Reuters, that Meta planned to install software on employees' computers to monitor activity for AI training. More Perfect Union did not reply to an email from The Register seeking comment. "So if we're trying to teach the models coding, for example, then having people internally build tools that or solve tasks that help teach the model how to code, we think, is going to dramatically increase our models' coding ability faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do, who don't have thousands and thousands of...