John Gruber

A, if you work at a large company and you don't think they're already tracking your keystrokes, you are all the way out of your mind.

I mean, they just are.

Do you remember in the sort of peak of the pandemic when Microsoft started talking loudly and proudly about all the ways that it was able to monitor people who were working from home?

Yeah, and people about mouse jigglers.

Yeah, I might get in trouble for saying this too, but my wife works at a company where on Teams, you go idle if you don't type in Teams or on your computer for like three minutes.

So sometimes what she'll do is she'll open up a spreadsheet

and put some heavy thing, a rock on top of a slash key and just type a billion slashes into an Excel spreadsheet so that she stays active in Teams.

This is what we've been reduced to.

This is a disaster.

Do I think this entire set of things is a horrific mess?

Yes, of course.

Do I think the idea that Meta is collecting this data to put into its training models for its AI agents is like a vastly worse intrusion on your privacy?

No, I really don't.

Like you can feel about this however you would like to.

And I think there are a lot of people who are very upset about this.

But I think in a lot of ways, this is just saying the quiet part loud.

I do think – I think I would be angrier about this if I thought that it was actually going to work.

Because the reason to be mad about this, right, is you are asking me to do my job while tacitly training a computer to do my job, right?

Like that's now the trade.

You are saying –