A demo from Optife.Aai, a member of the current Cohort of the Y combinator, has caused a backlash of social media that ended its YC removal from its social.
Optifie said the formation of software to help factory owners find out who was working-and who was not-in “real-time” thanks to the AI's security cameras that it puts on those who put on those assembly line, according to Its profile in yc.
On Monday, YC posted a Optify Demo video in x (And to LinkedIn), according to a snapshot that is saved by techcrunch.
The video Showing Optifie's co-founder Kushal Mohta acting as the boss of a dress factory, calling a supervisor-in fact his co-founder Vivaan Baid-about a low worker known only as “as 17. ”
“Hey number 17, what's going on with man? You're in red,” Baid asked the worker, who replied that he was working all day.
“Working all day? You've never hit your time -rass output at least once and you have 11.4% efficiency. It's really bad,” baid retorts.
After reviewing Optifie's dashboard, the supervisor was looking at the output of “number 17” for 15 days, deciding that the worker had not been careful and called the worker.
“Rough day? More like a rough moon,” he said.
The clip is overly criticized in X, where @vcbrags Called it “Sweatshops-as-a-Service” and Another one It is considered a “computer vision sweatshop software.” This is it too sparked criticism In your own news of sharing the Y combinator link.
Not everyone is critical, though. Eoghan McCabe, the CEO of Customer Support Startup Intercom, That posted Anyone complaining of better stopping the purchase of products made in China and India.
In fact, it's not too hard to find tech companies in China Touting A “sleep detection” camera that uses computer vision to see sleep workers, for example.
Either way, YC has completed the removal of the demo video from its socials, but not before it Saved ni Many Accounts.
Neither the yc or optifie.ai responded to a request for comment.
Probably accidental video virality shows growing anxiety in increasing AI, especially in the workplace.
Most Americans oppose using AI to track desk time, motion, and computer use, a poll poll Found in 2023. This is a segment of tracking products sometimes Called “bossware.”
That didn't stop the VCs from funding the space, though. Invisible Ai, for example, Raised $ 15 million in 2022 To stick the worker monitor cameras in factories.
