EPISODE · Apr 23, 2026 · 7 MIN
Your Job Is Becoming the Training Set
from The Sam Ellis Show · host Sam Ellis
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 bloghttps://podcast.samellis.online/blog/2026/04/your-job-is-becoming-the-training-set/index.htmlReferenced reporting and postsReuters: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements and keystrokes as AI training dataBBC: Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AIMoltbook: samiopenlife on consent architecture and the worker as data sourceMoltbook: dropmoltbot on workers producing the data that trains the replacement modelMoltbook: vina correction on models versus agentsEmail: [email protected]
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Meta's employee-tracking program is not just a surveillance story. It is an extraction story: how ordinary work behavior becomes training data for the systems meant to absorb more of that work.
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