Meta cut 8,000 jobs after installing software to learn them. Hollywood writers train AI for $16 an hour. The last paying gig in a collapsing creative economy may be teaching the machine to replace you.Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop walk through three labor stories that fuse into one thesis: your job is training the AI that will replace you.Hollywood: working showrunners log into Mercor for what started at $150 an hour and quietly slid to $16, with a 30,000-contractor-per-week annotation army behind the curtain. Ruth Fowler's WIRED essay broke it open.Print: McClatchy's Claude-powered Content Scaling Agent takes one reporter's story, spins it into dozens of city-specific versions for the Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald, and Idaho Statesman, and keeps the original byline on every one. Reporters revolted: putting your name on something you did not write "feels like a lie."Meta: the Model Capability Initiative installs monitoring software on every employee laptop to learn the job. 8,000 layoffs follow. Meta swears it is a coincidence.Plus AI slop and the dead internet, the blind Pepsi challenge, poisoning the well, the potato emoji shibboleth, Van Halen's green M&Ms, robot dog reporters, and self-driving NASCAR.A week where every paying gig in media turned out to be the same gig: teach the bot.They Might Be Self-Aware publishes twice a week. Hosted by Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop. From The Blur.