{"id":1056,"date":"2026-05-22T19:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:28:17","slug":"worker-exploitation-ai-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/worker-exploitation-ai-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker Exploitation AI Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprising that AI can be \u2018trained\u2019 to know what makes an employee effective \u2026 and then fire them!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Quote From: <a title=\"https:\/\/michalmalewicz.medium.com\/ai-is-not-the-reason-for-the-mass-layoffs-0e3363ce2c51\" href=\"https:\/\/michalmalewicz.medium.com\/ai-is-not-the-reason-for-the-mass-layoffs-0e3363ce2c51\">https:\/\/michalmalewicz.medium.com\/ai-is-not-the-reason-for-the-mass-layoffs-0e3363ce2c51<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent leaks also confirmed that Meta is training AI on its workforce directly. They want to learn specific workflows of people before they\u2019re replaced. This is pretty diabolical to have people measured and tracked with a sole purpose of getting rid of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo sweeten the PR, they say they\u2019re training AI because their employees are super-geniuses, so obviously it\u2019s worth preserving that genius.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, right!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you still work for these companies knowing they\u2019re actively extracting your original approach to problem solving to replace you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/19\/meta-jobs-ai-transfers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/19\/meta-jobs-ai-transfers\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/19\/meta-jobs-ai-transfers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprising that AI can be \u2018trained\u2019 to know what makes an employee effective \u2026 and then fire them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-exploitation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}