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Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio (www.theregister.com)
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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.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 37 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Ethics doesn’t matter. Morality doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is profit.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 4 points 3 hours ago

LINE GO UP!

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

for Zuck specifically, it feels like ego.

[–] Airfried@piefed.social 24 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It seems to me not even profits matter to them. Just control and power.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Yup. Money is important only in that it leads to control and power.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Or "Capital". You've just discovered the fatal flaw in capitalism: when money matters more than people, money will always win.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I discovered that decades ago. I’ve just been screaming into the void ever since.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 6 points 6 hours ago

I hear you. We live in the age of information. I pine for a period of time when people can find intelligence.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 7 hours ago

More like fooling the investors that AI will bring profit