Meta has paused its Model Capability Initiative AI training program after sensitive employee data including private conversations and performance metrics became visible to the entire company. The incident adds to a string of recent AI-related cybersecurity issues and is expected to heighten controversy around the firm's employee-monitoring practices.

Despite earlier statements that collected employee data would be "tightly controlled," the exposure shows Meta was not as secure as claimed.
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