United Kingdom, April 22 -- Meta is to track the way its employees work in order to train its AI models.

The tech behemoth - which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - informed workers on Tuesday (21.04.26) that their keystrokes and mouse clicks will be monitored by a new tool that will log their activity so it can be used as training data for AI technology.

A Meta spokesman told the BBC: "If we're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them.

"The data is not used for any other purpose."

Meta's Model Capability Initiative (MCI) will operate on work-related apps and will take occasional screenshots of content on employees' screens, according to...