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"A venture capital-backed “AI performance monitoring system for factory workers” is proposing what appears to be dehumanizing surveillance of factories, where machine vision tracks workers’ hand movements and output so a boss can look at graphs and yell at them about efficiency.

In a launch video demoing the product, Baid and Mohta put on a skit showing how Optifye.ai would be used by factory bosses.

“Ugh, it’s workspace 17. Workspace 17 is the bottleneck. The worst performing workspace here,” one of the bosses says, while watching a video of a man making clothing in a factory. “Hey number 17, what’s going on man? You are in red,” he says. “I have been working all day,” the person playing the worker says. “Working all day?” the line boss replies. “You haven’t hit your hourly output even once today. And you have 11.4% efficiency, this is really bad!”

“It’s just been a rough day,” the “worker” replies. “Rough day?” the boss says, looking at a calendar full of red days. “More like a rough month.”

https://www.404media.co/optifyeai-ycombinator-startup-ai-factory/

#AI #Startups #YCombinator #WorkerSurveillance #Optifye

"#WorkerSurveillance is already happening across industries. After the rise of remote work, companies started tracking workers’ productivity based on mouse movements, so workers started using “mouse jigglers” so they could walk away from their computers and use the bathroom in peace.
#Optifye.ai’s approach and pitch, however, stands out because of the way its founders seem to embrace #cruelty to workers in the name of #productivity."

https://www.404media.co/email/b7eb2339-2ea1-4a37-96cc-a360494c214c/

#YCombinator Supports #AI Startup Dehumanizing #Factory Workers

venture capital-backed “AI performance #monitoring system 4 factory workers” is proposing what appears 2B dehumanizing #surveillance of factories, where machine vision tracks workers’ hand movements & output so a boss can look at graphs & yell at them about efficiency

In a launch video demoing the product, Baid &Mohta put on a skit showing how Optifye.ai would be used by bosses
#optifye #optifyeai #privacy

https://www.404media.co/optifyeai-ycombinator-startup-ai-factory/