Meta Told Its Employees They Can't Opt Out of Being Training Data. Then It Laid Off 8,000 of Them.

Leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg reveals Meta deployed 'Model Capability Initiative' software that captures every keystroke, mouse movement, and screenshot from US employees — across Gmail, GitHub, and Slack — to train AI models. No opt-out. European employees exempt under GDPR. Then 8,000 were fired.