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A demo from optifye.ai, a member of the current cohort of Y Combinator, triggered a counter -reaction in social media that deleted her from the social with YC.
Optifyee says that it is building software to help factory owners know who works in real time thanks to AI-driven surveillance cameras and who does not like assembly lines, according to AI. His YC profile.
YC published one on Monday Opfy Demo video on x (and further LinkedIn), According to a snapshot stored by techcrunch.
The video shows that Optifye co-founder Kushal Mohta acts as head of a clothing factory and calls a superior in reality of his co-founder Vivaan Baid-over a low-performance worker who is only known as “number 17”.
“Hey number 17, what’s going on, man? You are in the red, ”Baid asks the worker who replies that he has worked all day.
“Work all day? You have reached your hourly edition again and had 11.4% efficiency. It’s really bad, ”replies Baid.
After the supervisor checked the issue of “Number 17” for 15 days, the worker decides that the worker was below average and calls the worker.
“Rauter day? Rather like a gross month, ”he says.
The clip was strongly criticized on X, where @vcbrags called it “Sweatshops-as-a-service” and another It was classified as a “Computer Vision Sweatshop software”. It too Criticism triggered On Y Combinator’s own link -sharing -site hacker news.
However, not everyone was critical. Eoghan McCabe, CEO from Customer Support Startup Intercom, Did that post Anyone who complains better stops buying products in China and India.
In fact, it is not too difficult to find technology companies in China squeeze A camera “sleep recognition”, which uses, for example, computer vision to recognize bed laborers.
In both cases, YC deleted the demo video from its social, but not before it was saved from several Accounts.
Neither yc nor opifye.ai answered a request for comment.
The probably unintentional virality of the video shows that the fears of the rise of AI, especially at the workplace, growing fears.
Most Americans reject it to use AI to pursue the time to pursue the movements and computer use of workers, a PEW survey found in 2023. This is sometimes a segment of surveillance products called “bossware”.
However, VCS did not prevent this from financing the room. Invisible AI, for example, collected $ 15 million in 2022 Also record workers’ monitoring cameras in factories.
