Meta Platforms is installing monitoring software on the computers of employees based in the United States to collect detailed interaction data for AI training, according to internal memos seen by Reuters. The deployment is intended to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes as part of a program the company calls the Model Capability Initiative, or MCI.
The memos outline that MCI will track activity across a predetermined list of work-related applications and websites and will occasionally capture snapshots of on-screen content. A memo posted on Tuesday by a staff AI research scientist in a channel for the company’s Meta SuperIntelligence Labs team described the scope of the capture and the mechanics of the monitoring.
Meta has said the recorded interactions will be used to train AI systems to perform work tasks autonomously. The company identified certain areas where current models have difficulty imitating how people operate computers - examples cited include choosing items from dropdown menus and using keyboard shortcuts - and framed the initiative as a step toward improving model performance on those specific interaction types.
"This is where all Meta employees can help our models get better simply by doing their daily work," the memo said.
The internal announcement follows a separate memo on Monday from Meta’s chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, in which he informed staff that the company would expand internal data collection as part of its AI for Work, or AI4W, efforts. Together, the communications indicate a coordinated push inside Meta to gather more behavioral data from employees to inform model training.
The documentation cited in the memos describes the technical intent of the program and the types of interactions to be recorded. It identifies MCI as focused specifically on capturing the kinds of human-computer behaviors that challenge current AI systems, and it points to using everyday employee workflows to create training examples.
This reporting is based on internal memos referenced in the company communications and on the descriptions included in those memos. The memos themselves provide the principal details about the program name, the kinds of data to be captured, the targeted user base of U.S.-based employees, and the stated training objectives.
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