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Bosses Deploying AI-Powered Spyware That Watches Workers Constantly: "You are being watched."
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eicker lemmy.world eicker@lemmy.world
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eicker lemmy.world eicker@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-11
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Funny how AI was supposed to eliminate tedious work, but instead it’s eliminating the last scraps of dignity at work. Management can’t explain what half its executives do all day, yet they’ve built a robot hall monitor to grade every syllable from people actually serving customers.

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SomeRandomNoob discuss.tchncs.de SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2025-03-08
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You spy on me while i work for you, i no longer work for you.

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funkreddit lemmy.zip funkreddit@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-01
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This is the real meaning behind ai. Why do you think all big tech bros are sucking on the orange micro weiner? They’re all perverts that are part of the Epstein class. Simple as that; power hungry perverts

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obvs lemmy.world obvs@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-17
#5 · Quote Reply

Funny how AI was supposed to eliminate tedious work, but instead it’s eliminating the last scraps of dignity at work. Management can’t explain what half its executives do all day, yet they’ve built a robot hall monitor to grade every syllable from people actually serving customers.

Without billionaires and employers, AI would eliminate tedious work.

The problem isn't actually the AI.

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404found lemmy.zip 404found@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-03-10
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Can't wait for people to be able to choose if they work or not because AI will do all the work for us and we won't need money anymore. That's what Elon Musk said at least.

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Kairos lemmy.today LodeMike@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-12-26
#7 · Quote Reply

Hell yeah!!! MORE RACIAL AND SEX DISCRIMINATION LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

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beep piefed.world beep@piefed.world
Joined: 2026-04-08
#8 · Quote Reply

The actual Guardian article, 24 Jun 2026.

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Quazatron lemmy.world Quazatron@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#9 · Quote Reply

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

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tfm europe.pub tfm@europe.pub
Joined: 2025-03-13
#10 · Quote Reply

I'm so happy that I live in Europe

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toiletobserver lemmy.world toiletobserver@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-08
#11 · Quote Reply

I was already being watched. Key loggers, firewall, etc.

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r0ertel lemmy.world r0ertel@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-27
#12 · Quote Reply

They mandated that we return to the office. I now have long stretches of time with my laptop closed while attending in person meetings or standing at a white board or even socializing. Track that.

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TryingToBeGood reddthat.com TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-03-31
#13 · Quote Reply

My new laptop turns on its mic randomly. Hope my company likes listening to me swear at it. 😁

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PattyMcB lemmy.world PattyMcB@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-12
#14 · Quote Reply

You spy on me while i work for you, i no longer work for you.

This is the correct reaction and I'm with you

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Avid Amoeba lemmy.ca avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-05
#15 · Quote Reply

I'm so happy that I live in Europe

For now. 😅

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shiftymccool piefed.ca shiftymccool@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-10-17
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You spy on me while i work for you, i no longer work for you.

Until no jobs without it, then what?

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SomeRandomNoob discuss.tchncs.de SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2025-03-08
#17 · Quote Reply

Until no jobs without it, then what?

Burn down the government that allowed it?

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blargh513 sh.itjust.works blargh513@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Am boss. Work in information security. My team builds the surveillance tools.

We are not using ai powered spyware. You know how expensive that shit is? I can barely convince my bosses to spend money on things we desparetly need. You know how many fucking business cases and useless PowerPoint decks I'd have to produce in order to get funding for something like this? I can hear my boss now "OK so if we did buy it, we don't have the headcount to operate it, nor maintain it."

Sorry, but do NOT discount how cheap most of these companies are.

Also, non,-ai tools work just fine. The only thing they'll do with it is build a case for firing people. It is super easy to do that anyway. Put someone on a pip. Set the rules to get off the pip. Make them unachievable. If someone actually does the things, just say they didn't do them just so.

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Nouvellalia lemmy.world Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-16
#19 · Quote Reply

Soon the AI will be prompting you to do things. Next will be mild electric shocks. Nothing dangerous of course, just uncomfortable.

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willington lemmy.dbzer0.com willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-16
#20 · Quote Reply

Funny how AI was supposed to eliminate tedious work, but instead it’s eliminating the last scraps of dignity at work. Management can’t explain what half its executives do all day, yet they’ve built a robot hall monitor to grade every syllable from people actually serving customers.

It's almost like there are different classes of people with different rules and expectations for each class.

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Robust Mirror aussie.zone Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-09
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Am boss. Work in information security. My team builds the surveillance tools. We are not using ai powered spyware. You know how expensive that shit is? I can barely convince my bosses to spend money on things we desparetly need. You know how many fucking business cases and useless PowerPoint decks I'd have to produce in order to get funding for something like this? I can hear my boss now "OK so...

I believe the vast majority aren't, and I know money is money, but it's not that expensive. Not only are there vision models small enough to run locally entirely free now on hardware more modest than you would think, even using an api key from open router and sending it a screenshot every 15 seconds to summarise it into a log costs in the realm of 1.5c/hour.

Now yes that is per person, but even so, 10 employees 15c/h, 100 for $1.50/h. And remember this is an unreasonably often every 15 seconds. Most would be happy per minute or even less. Under 40c/h to watch 100 people. It's money yes, but it really isn't that expensive.

Edit: voice is also cheaper than you would think to have a model stt and summarise it, also single digit cents per hour of audio.

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blargh513 sh.itjust.works blargh513@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-07
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I believe the vast majority aren't, and I know money is money, but it's not that expensive. Not only are there vision models small enough to run locally entirely free now on hardware more modest than you would think, even using an api key from open router and sending it a screenshot every 15 seconds to summarise it into a log costs in the realm of 1.5c/hour. Now yes that is per person, but even...

My current company has 40k Corp employees and 100k retail. That'll run you.

We can't even get basic time entry systems to work right. We could never build a home made system.

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Robust Mirror aussie.zone Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-09
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My current company has 40k Corp employees and 100k retail. That'll run you. We can't even get basic time entry systems to work right. We could never build a home made system.

It will. But if you frame it as wage, it's giving everyone a 1.5c/h pay rise to watch them. Many companies would take that. And that's not considering the local models that are essentially free. Again I don't think most are doing it.

And you're right the paperwork and actually getting something built and installed and working across a company would be a massive hurdle. I'm just saying price isn't really. Especially if they're a company already paying for AI in some way.

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