New Delhi, April 22 -- Meta Platforms is rolling out new software on its US employees' computers that tracks keystrokes, mouse movements and screen activity to train its AI systems, Reuters reported on 21 April. The move has triggered widespread backlash within the company, according to communications obtained by Business Insider, which reported the employee pushback today.

The internal announcement said that the programme is designed to help AI models better understand how people interact with computers, such as using keyboard shortcuts and choosing from dropdown menus. "For agents to understand how people actually complete everyday tasks using computers, we need to train our models on real examples," the post said, adding that Meta emp...