Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers
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· Feb 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Optifye.ai's pitch includes a video where a "boss" yells at a "worker" by calling him a number, and sarcastically saying he's having a bad month.
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.
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