John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺<p>&quot;Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers&quot;</p><p>by Samantha Cole<br />Feb 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM</p><p>&quot;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.</p><p>In a launch video demoing the product, Baid and Mohta put on a skit showing how Optifye.ai would be used by factory bosses. </p><p>...&quot;</p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/MlFoo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/MlFoo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/404media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>404media</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WorkerDehuminization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorkerDehuminization</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/YCombinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YCombinator</span></a></p>