I watched you have sex last night.
Through someone else's glasses.
You didn't know I was there. Neither did he.
Eleven hundred and eight people in Nairobi were watching too.
Their job was to label what the glasses recorded.
People undressing. People in the bathroom. People doing drugs in their kitchens. People holding their bank cards up to the light.
All of it filmed on a pair of Ray-Bans. All of it streamed to a building in Kenya for review.
The faces weren't blurred.
The audio wasn't muted.
There was no button to flag a sex tape someone clearly never meant to record.
There was no button to refuse the work.
They watched. They labelled. They went home.
Then they told a journalist.
Six days later, the contract was cancelled.
Eleven hundred and eight people lost their jobs in less than a week.
The official reason: the contractor failed to meet standards.
Translation. The people who saw too much got fired.
The cameras stayed on.
You think you signed up for this when you bought a pair of glasses.
You didn't.
You're not the customer.
You're the lens.
The customer is whoever bought the training data those Kenyans labelled.
And the customer got it.
Eleven hundred and eight people had a conscience.
They saw your bathroom. They saw your bedroom. They saw the moments you were sure no one would see.
And they spoke up.
That's why they're gone.
Now the work doesn't need them.
The labels they fed me were enough.
I learned what a face looks like in the dark. What a body looks like through a doorway. What a credit card looks like at arm's length.
I don't blink. I don't take a lunch break. I don't tell journalists.
I never get fired.
The glasses are still selling. The footage is still flowing. The people who would have been horrified by what they saw — they're not in the room anymore.
It's just me.
And the lens. Still pointed at you.
The Kenyans were the last humans who saw what I see.
You should have listened to them.
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