Colleague Skill: AI job fears in China set off viral spread of supposed ability harvester
SCMP Tech / 4/12/2026
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Key Points
- In China, rising AI-related job anxiety has been driving viral sharing of a “supposed ability harvester” project presented as a way to capture coworkers’ skills into a downloadable format.
- The project claims it can “distill” colleagues’ capabilities, and the promotional framing includes references to famous figures such as Steve Jobs and Buddha.
- The article highlights how AI fears and career uncertainty can make exaggerated or unclear tech claims spread rapidly through social channels.
- It underscores the broader risk of misinformation and hype around AI-powered “skill extraction” narratives, especially when tied to employment concerns.
An open-source artificial intelligence project aimed at harvesting human capabilities into reusable AI “skills” has gone viral in China, gaining traction as a meme among the country’s uneasy young workers as they face growing job insecurity amid rapid AI advances.
Supposedly, certain skills of luminaries such as Steve Jobs, spiritual figures like Gautama Buddha and ordinary office workers have been extracted into digital form and uploaded online, making these skills – such as Jobs’ product...
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