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"Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers"

by Samantha Cole
Feb 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM

"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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https://archive.ph/MlFoo