Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models
In Brief Posted: 4:45 PM PDT · April 21, 2026 Image Credits:Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Lucas Ropek Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the mouse movements and keystrokes of its own staff in its pursuit to build more capable and efficient artificial intelligence. The story, which was first reported by Reuters, shows the lengths to which tech companies are going to find new sources of training data — the lifeblood of AI models that helps the programs learn how to more effectively carry out tasks and respond to user queries. When reached for comment by TechCrunch, a…
