Meta is reportedly forcing U.S. employees to train their own AI replacements via "Keylogger" surveillance

Meta has launched a controversial internal program called the 'Model Capability Initiative' that requires U.S. employees to install invasive tracking software on their work computers. The software functions similarly to a keylogger but with even more granular data harvesting capabilities. Meta is treating its workforce as a 'living dataset,' recording how humans solve complex problems and navigate software interfaces to train autonomous AI agents.

The program aims to bridge the gap between current LLM capabilities and full workflow automation. This initiative comes as Meta prepares for another wave of layoffs—reportedly 8,000 employees, or 10% of their workforce, starting in May. Employees are effectively being forced to spend their final weeks at the company digitizing their unique skills and intuition, essentially training the AI systems that will justify their own termination. Critics call this the most cynical example yet of companies using employees to automate themselves out of jobs.