Meta Employees Are Being Forced To Build Their Own Replacements | Meta Layoffs

Meta pushed keylogging software onto every U.S. employee's computer — keystrokes, mouse movements, screenshots, no opt-out — one month before 8,000 layoffs begin. The same employees generating the training data are being replaced by the AI agents they're training.

Juan and Kate break down the internal memo sent to Meta Superintelligence Labs employees, the GDPR loophole that exempts EU workers entirely, the Andrew Bosworth CTO quote that says the quiet part out loud, and why the OpenAI contractor data requests and dead startup Slack archive sales confirm this is an industry playbook, not a one-company story.

Meta already lied about the smart glasses. The employees asked for a personal computer. And we called this 20 episodes ago. The receipts are now public.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Is Meta Keylogging Every Employee? The Internal Memo

0:36 What Meta AI Says This Is Actually For

2:07 8,000 Layoffs. Zero Opt-Out. Same Week.

3:24 Meta Already Lied About the Smart Glasses

4:17 Why EU Workers Are Protected and US Workers Are Not

4:52 Bossware Is Back — This Time It Trains Your Replacement

6:06 Tech Workers Training Themselves Out of a Job

6:51 Meta's CTO Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

7:36 OpenAI Did It Too. This Is an Industry Playbook.

8:22 Who's Doing the Labor of the AI Era (And Who Profits)

9:23 Meta Layoffs: We Called This 20 Episodes Ago