Morning Brew Daily Meta Surveils Employees to Train its AI & What Happens When You Give Cocaine to Salmon?
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Apr 23, 2026 They discuss a tech company tracking employee mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models. Security gaps let a powerful AI model be accessed by outsiders. A near‑scrapped Looney Tunes film resurfaced with a new trailer. Researchers found cocaine in waterways alters salmon behavior. They also touch on cheaper US gas, campus tour weather influencing applications, and a possible airline rescue.
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Agent Fails Reveal Why Meta Needs Human UI Data
- Toby points out AI agents mess up mundane UI tasks, like Luna hiring a painter in Afghanistan because of alphabetical dropdown order.
- Meta wants employee interaction data to fix these agent mistakes as it builds autonomous desktop assistants.
Companies Exhaust Public Data And Seek New Sources
- AI firms are running out of publicly available training data after scraping much of the internet, forcing them to source new datasets.
- Anthropic and Meta are turning to internal logs and employee behavior as alternate data sources.
Discord Users Guessed Mythos URL And Gained Access
- Anthropic released Mythos selectively because it warned the model could exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
- A Discord hacking-focused group guessed the model's URL and accessed Mythos the same day, mostly to experiment rather than to sabotage.