Meta Employees Are Protesting The Company's Mouse Tracking Program

Last month, it said it would use employees’ mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models.

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Meta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta employees distributed flyers at multiple U.S. offices on Tuesday to protest the company's recent installation of mouse-tracking software on their computers, according to photos of the pamphlets seen by Reuters. The flyers, which appeared in meet...

Can researchers detect #AI bots taking paid surveys?

#Prolific tested humans and #LLM agents with various #dataQuality checks.
- The company says they caught 100% of the non-humans.
- My take-away: #reCAPTCHA and #mouseTracking caught 95%

https://www.prolific.com/resources/authenticity-checks-how-we-tested-the-most-accurate-method-for-identifying-agentic-ai

#surveyMethods

New publication! :D This project was an international collaboration between Eastern Kentucky University and the Universidad de Oviedo.

When reading in English, bilingual children from USA focus on how the words sound (phonology) while bilingual children from Spain focus on how the words are spelled (orthography). Both groups are able to read but they do so differently.

#BilingualWordRecognition #orthography #phonology #pseudohomophones #mousetracking

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13670069241229394?fbclid=IwAR0M5AV09QvbW7Pw4yuvGfYuCLPKYVO2B1b-YaFEFhITfvD5Q-HB75UByHM

Comment vos mouvements de souris peuvent vous percer à jour

Un chercheur américain en marketing est parvenu à prédire des décisions simplement en observant les mouvements hésitants d'un curseur.

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