: Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AI
    • kadotux@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4 hours

      You work at meta or you have keyloggers for some other reason?

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8 hours

    I can’t tolerate surveillance software on my PC that I use to develop surveillance software!

    • Facebook employees
  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6 hours

    Meta has always been surveillance, and pushing propaganda, thats the only thing meta does.

  • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 hours

    Install an autoclicker/autotyper HID USB key that, when it senses and idle computer, spams clicks and keystrokes at plausible spoeds, but which outputs pseudorandom nonsense, to muddy the data pool and produce far more incoherent data than coherent data

    • SpeakerToLampposts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      I’d be tempted to modify my user environment as much as possible, so the ways I use it wouldn’t be transferrable to anyone else’s environment. I’ve already done this to some extent, with e.g. nonstandard command line aliases and highly-customized wrapper scripts around the tools I use a lot.

  • No1@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14 hours

    If I wanted to reduce the workforce, but didn’t want to pay for redundancies, I’d implement some nasty, overbearing policies that would make anyone with morals, a sense of decency, or integrity, resign.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21 hours

    I see, so the Meta employees have the typical conservative mindset: any misdeed is perfectly fine as long as it doesn’t affect you personally.

    That’s what I thought - it’s probably not just the employees of social media companies who feel this way, but also those at Palantir and similar. Not to mention the “defense” contractors and the like.

    I really wonder how these people can still look at themselves in the mirror.

    • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
      20 hours

      I knew a guy who went to work for palantir a bunch of years ago. Was always friendly at work. I asked him “but what’re you going to do if they do bad stuff, like spying on people?”

      He just shrugged. Didn’t care. The money was good.

      I don’t know if this alone is proof that’s a bad person, but I think it precludes him from being a good one.

      • freedom@lemy.lolEnglish
        9 hours

        Mercenary mindset. No snowflake feels responsible for the avalanche.

      • Archr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17 hours

        I would argue no. Partly because I am in a similar situation. But also because I would be a fool to quit such a stable, laid back job in a market where it is extremely difficult to find a job in my field.

        Granted I also do care. But not enough to risk poverty.

        • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
          15 hours

          It’s hard to make a full judgment without knowing more details but “the pay is good and it’s easy” isn’t really a compelling justification for “and I help evil manifest in the world”.

            • foxwolf@pawb.socialEnglish
              14 hours

              But are you doing any of that to your big evil company? Or is it easier to be a good worker and not risk getting fired?

              • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
                14 hours

                You’re asking someone who may literally work at a surveillance company to publicly admit to the stuff they linked? Personally I think it was a bad idea for them to post that link or even suggest they know it exists.

                • Archr@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  13 hours

                  And that’s why I don’t connect my personal devices to the corporate network, because I know what we can see.

  • yumyumsmuncher@feddit.ukEnglish
    23 hours

    Employees working for evil company: “Hey evil company don’t do evil stuff to us”

    Evil company does evil thing to them

    Employees: =O

  • myrmidex@belgae.socialEnglish
    1 day

    Lol, imagine working at an evil empire and this being your biggest annoyance.

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
    1 day

    ah so it’s fine when you develop software and tools to spy on your userbase and hell people who aren’t even in your userbase but when it comes to the higher ups at meta using YOUR data to train YOUR AI that’s too far huh?

  • Takios@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    23 hours

    It’s always just a matter of time until you’re not part of the protected in-group anymore…

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    obviously a layoff tactic. Their AI group shit the bed after they burned millions on third life the zuckerverse

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      23 hours

      obviously a layoff tactic.

      It sure smells like it, right? But, and I’m repeating myself and others, the important part here is that, if it is a layoff tactic, it’s a horrible one: as per the Dead Sea Effect, the people who leave as a result of declining workplace environment are those most able to leave, i.e the most employable staff, with each round of departures. Thus, the people whom Meta would want to stay around are the people most likely to find, get, and depart for jobs elsewhere. And while Meta are bastards, the mechanics of working in a massive org like that one score really well for skills companies want.

      I wish them luck in this terrible job market, and hope they can find a supportive environment again. We can always do with more smart people working for the greater good instead of against it.