Daily Briefing: Meta Is Keylogging Its Employees to Train AI

Meta is reportedly installing software on employee computers to capture mouse movements, keystrokes, and screenshots to train AI agents on real work patterns. This new category of training data — capturing how people interact with software, not just what they produce — arrives alongside Meta's announcement of 8,000 layoffs and $135 billion in AI infrastructure spending. The feedback loop is stark: remaining employees are generating the training data that could make their own roles automatable. The episode explores the privacy implications, the historical parallel to industrial time-and-motion studies, and whether this approach is likely to become an industry standard.

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