*Training Your Replacement, One Keystroke at a Time*
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Valerio De Stefano
29 maggio 2026
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AI and the hidden wage theft of automation training/
Reuters
<https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-ai-training-data-2026-04-21/>
recently reported that Meta plans to install tracking software on
U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and
keystrokes for AI training. Meta says the data will not be used for
performance evaluation and will include safeguards. Most revealingly,
employees would help train these systems by doing their ordinary work.
One of the most degrading workplace experiences is being required to
train the people who may replace you. This is familiar in outsourcing,
restructuring, and redundancy processes: the employer asks workers to
transfer knowledge, document routines, explain exceptions, and hand over
the tacit understanding that makes a job possible.
Employers have always learned from how workers do their jobs. New
workers learn by watching experienced colleagues; managers redesign work
protocols from existing practice; automation has long depended on
studying human tasks. AI changes the scale, visibility, and quality of
that extraction. Replacement training can now be absorbed into
keystrokes, screen activity, call transcripts, chat logs, emails, and
the many traces workers produce while doing their jobs. The daily
performance of the job can itself become the handover, without the need
to sit with a successor.
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continua qui:
https://onlabor.org/training-your-replacement-one-keystroke-at-a-time/
