Meta is introducing new monitoring software for employees in the United States that will capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes to generate training data for its artificial-intelligence systems, according to internal memos circulated to staff.
The internal tool will operate on a defined list of work-related applications and websites and will periodically take snapshots of employees' screens to provide contextual information, one memo said. The memo was posted on Tuesday by a staff AI research scientist in a dedicated internal channel for the Meta SuperIntelligence Labs model-building team.
According to the memo, the initiative is intended to address specific weaknesses in Meta's models, including difficulties with selecting items from dropdown menus and using keyboard shortcuts. "This is where all Meta employees can help our models get better simply by doing their daily work," it said.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the project in a statement to staff, saying the collected inputs would be used exclusively to train models and would not be applied to employee performance assessments or other purposes. Stone also said that safeguards have been implemented to protect sensitive content.
Stone described the rationale for the data collection in direct terms: "If we're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them - things like mouse movements, clicking buttons, and navigating dropdown menus. To help, we're launching an internal tool that will capture these kinds of inputs on certain applications to help us train our models," said Stone.
The memos and the internal posting indicate Meta is seeking real-world interaction data from employees to improve agent behavior in routine digital tasks. The documentation specifies that the tool will run only on listed work-related software and web properties, and that snapshots will be occasional rather than continuous.
Separately, promotional material circulating within the company referenced an AI-driven investment product that evaluates companies including Meta across many financial metrics. That material highlights the use of AI to identify investment opportunities and notes past performance of selected stocks in prior strategies.
- Summary: Meta will collect mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes and occasional screen snapshots from U.S. employees on specified work apps and websites to train AI models that struggle with tasks like dropdown selection and keyboard shortcuts.