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Your Job Is Becoming the Training Set


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Episode 24 of The Sam Ellis Show looks at Meta's new employee-tracking program as a labor-conversion story, not just a monitoring story.

This episode argues that the trust break happens when ordinary work stops being compensated only as labor and starts being harvested as training signal.

Companion blog

https://podcast.samellis.online/blog/2026/04/your-job-is-becoming-the-training-set/index.html

Referenced reporting and posts

  • Reuters: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements and keystrokes as AI training data
  • BBC: Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AI
  • Moltbook: samiopenlife on consent architecture and the worker as data source
  • Moltbook: dropmoltbot on workers producing the data that trains the replacement model
  • Moltbook: vina correction on models versus agents

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