this post was submitted on 23 May 2026
174 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

84875 readers
3348 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

top 27 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online 3 points 1 hour ago

We need to signal the plumber.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago
[–] Meat_Of_Nan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

And I defend the idea that Zuckerberg should be throw into a slow moving industrial grinder.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 6 minutes ago

LINE GO UP!

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 1 points 34 minutes ago

for Zuck specifically, it feels like ego.

[–] Airfried@piefed.social 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 3 points 43 minutes ago

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

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 7 points 3 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 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 4 points 3 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 3 hours ago

More like fooling the investors that AI will bring profit

[–] vane@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

He said that the biggest problem is that they have leaks about what they want to do with AI. https://odysee.com/DYiMJ1JP_az:b44480746b23cb260ba4e23261e1e3e5dfee6f20

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

"I know you guys are the smart people, so I'm going to harvest all your data because I'm just a fucking idiot who got lucky on harvesting data and have no issues exploiting every single one of you."

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago

To be fair he’s also been trying to make an AI version of himself.

The idea is a less atrocious if you don’t have to worry about any of your needs being met. But even then, there’s a huge difference between “I recorded myself doing X” and “we’re going to watch everything you say or do and hopefully put you out of a job with it”.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

meta employees.. i am begging you. leave, now. at least form a union or something.

[–] trashboat@piefed.social 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You’re not winning the race, Mark

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

The race to the bottom perhaps.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

He won the race to the bottom before he even built/stole Facebook.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 hours ago

[mEtAvErSe noises intensify]

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

In the US, private employment == indentured servitude.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 4 minutes ago

they trust me, the dumb fucks