Meta To Start Capturing Employees’ Mouse Movements And Keystrokes To Train Its IA: Report

Meta is installing software on the computers of U.S. employees to track their mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes to train its artificial intelligence models, according to a new report.

Reuters detailed that the tool, called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), will also take snapshots of employees’ screens. The program will run on work-related apps and websites.

A Staff AI research scientist sent a memo to the rest of the company, saying the goal is improving the company’s AI models in areas where they are struggling to replicate the way in which humans interact with computers.

“This is where all Meta employees can help our models get better simply by doing their daily work,” reads a passage of the document.

In another memo, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said that the company will increase internal data collection efforts. “The vision we are building towards is ​one where our agents primarily do the work and our role is to direct, review and help them improve,” he said.

He didn’t explain how agents will be trained but noted that the company will be “rigorous” in “building up data and evals for all the types of interactions we have as we go about our work.”

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said the model needs “real example” of how people use computers for every day tasks to help develop AI. “Things like mouse movements, clicking buttons, and navigating dropdown menus,” he said.

Meta has been expanding into the AI world, recently acquiring Moltbook, a Reddit-esque social networking platform that is best known for using AI agents and bots.

A Meta spokesperson shared the reason behind the acquisition in March, saying that its founders’ development centers on an “approach to connecting agents through an always-on directory,” citing that it is a novel take on a “rapidly developing space.”

Moltbook was built using the OpenClaw technology, a large language model that can create AI agents or personas to interact with them via popular apps like WhatsApp, Discord, and more.

Schlicht used OpenClaw to create a bot called “Clawd Clawderberg,” and then asked this bot to create a social networking platform for AI agents, which led to the development of Moltbook.

According to the terms of the deal, creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining the Meta Superintelligence Labs to help the team in their development of next-generation AI experiences under the company.