Meta has announced plans to collect mouse movements and keystrokes from its own employees as a new source of training data for its artificial intelligence models, Reuters first reported. The company said it is launching an internal tool to capture how staff interact with computers across certain applications, including clicking, navigating menus, and other routine inputs.
A Meta spokesperson said the data collection was designed to help train AI agents capable of completing everyday computer-based tasks, adding that safeguards were in place to protect sensitive content and that the data would not be used for any other purpose.
The move reflects growing pressure across the AI industry to find novel training data sources, as companies increasingly turn to unconventional repositories — including, separately, archived corporate communications from defunct startups.
