Meta Wants Your Keystrokes Like It’s Building a SnitchGPT

Meta is reportedly recording employees’ keystrokes to train AI, which is a sentence that should come with a free therapy session.

Not “we track deliverables.” Not “we measure outcomes.” Literally: the buttons you press, the way you type, the little backspaces you hit when you realize you just wrote something HR would call “a vibe issue.”

They’re pitching it as an “internal productivity” thing.

The funniest part is the implied consent. You didn’t sign up to be a data set, you signed up to be a person with dental. But inside Big Tech, your labor isn’t the product — your behavior is. The work is just the excuse to harvest it.

And yeah, they’ll say it’s “for improving tools” and “protecting company systems” and “enhancing efficiency.”

This is also a labor relations grenade. Because once your keystrokes are a metric, “performance” becomes whatever the algorithm says, and the algorithm is trained on the last time your manager had a bad day and decided you “don’t seem hungry.”

Meanwhile, the people benefiting are the same people who never get measured this way: executives and shareholders who want higher output, lower headcount, and a nice little AI story to keep the stock from getting bullied.

If Meta normalizes this, every company with a “culture deck” and a Slack emoji policy is going to follow, and your job will quietly become a subscription where you pay with your privacy.