How proving you're "not a robot" could be training AI
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
An announcement from Meta that information about employees’ keystroke and mouse movement would be collected and used to train its artificial intelligence has reportedly caused turmoil within the company. But the concept of harvesting data from everyday digital interactions isn’t new. “Marketplace Morning Report” Host Sabri Ben-Achour spoke with Panagiotis Ipeirotis, a professor of Technology and Business at NYU Stern, about how seemingly innocuous online activity can be used to train AI. But first: rising gas prices are making some Americans cut back, but the k-shaped economy knows no bounds.
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| 0:00.0 | Storms, floods, and fires are ever more extreme. |
| 0:04.2 | And yet, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is fighting for its life. |
| 0:08.5 | I've never been a big fan of FEMA. |
| 0:10.0 | FEMA's a disaster. |
| 0:11.1 | FEMA's a dirty way. |
| 0:11.9 | People are waking up in droves to the FEMA camps. |
| 0:14.8 | Can the agency survive the stories that have been told about it? |
| 0:18.2 | And can we survive without FEMA? |
| 0:20.6 | American Emergency, the Movement to Kill FEMA, is a brand new series from WNYC's On the Media. |
| 0:27.2 | Listen, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.4 | You know, it's kind of hard to just quit gas. |
| 0:36.6 | From Marketplace, I'm Sabrina Beneshore in New York. |
| 0:39.3 | A gallon of gas will set you back $4.52 on average in the U.S. |
| 0:44.6 | $6.15 in California. |
| 0:47.3 | A mere eternity ago in February before President Trump launched the war on Iran, |
| 0:51.7 | gas was at just $2.98 a gallon. Energy Secretary Chris Wright |
| 0:57.6 | over the weekend floated the idea of pausing the federal gas tax to give Americans some relief. |
| 1:02.5 | As you can imagine, those prices are going to be harder on some people than others. That is what a |
| 1:08.8 | study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found. |
| 1:11.7 | Upper income households barely cut back on gas at all. They just paid it. Lower income households, |
| 1:17.5 | though not only pulled back on gas, but they still ended up spending more money on gas overall |
| 1:23.5 | because the prices are so high. Marketplace's Nova Saffo reports. |
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