Real-time, AI monitoring at work: Major brands are snooping on employee conversations

oakey66 , 4 months ago

This will also be used against union organizing attempts as well which sucks.

DudeDudenson , 4 months ago

I mean, you probably shouldn't be organizing against your company using company communication channels

altima_neo , 4 months ago

Yeah just don't be using teams and slack as your personal chatroom. It's already a bad idea to be doing that anyway.

slumlordthanatos , 4 months ago

shrug

I already assumed I'm being monitored on my work devices, and write my emails and chats like they're going to be used in a deposition.

If I'm shit-talking someone, it's in person or on my personal device.

tourist , 4 months ago

If your company uses the Microsoft ecosystem, have a look at the search function in Delve or SharePoint or whatever the fuck they're calling the shared employee document repository this week.

At one point, I don't know if you still can, the search would scan meeting transcriptions if the organizer fucked up the privacy settings.

I searched for naughty bigboy words and came across a transcript of two employees (who had since left the company) just absolutely shittalking a manager.

Besides some hilarious typos I also found some old chat logs where I was using some colourful language. Deleted that. Hopefully it's proper gone and HR won't find it.

Asidonhopo , 4 months ago

Just a short jump to more invasive AI assisted snooping and analytics on spoken word conversations too.

CaptainSpaceman , 4 months ago

Why stop there? Snoop on phone conversations too since high res zoom is cheap AF these days

Not to mention itd be trivial to turn that into a keylogger

blazera , 4 months ago

AI interacts with data thats already there, its not a data collector.

heavy , 4 months ago

This is true, but AI can be used as a tool to summarize and otherwise distill a massive amount of information to a form that someone can make sense of. It was probably cost prohibative to go through this data before or making specific snooping tools.

blazera , 4 months ago

All these folks talking in work chats in encryption algorithms and riddles, if only a technology could make these words legible.