Ⓜ️ Meta trains AI on employee actions amid layoffs

On April 30, Mark Zuckerberg told managers that training AI models on employee actions will sharply improve their capabilities. Meta uses data from computer sessions, code, mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes to teach AI agents.

Meta believes its employees’ higher intelligence offers better training data than external annotators. This approach is part of the Model Capability Initiative, reported by Reuters on April 21.

At the same time, Meta announced layoffs of 8,000 employees and reassigned 7,000 more to AI roles. The company is betting on AI trained from internal work to gain an edge.

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