The demo of Optifye.Ai, a member of the current Kohort y Combinator, caused a response in social media, which ended with the removal of its community.
Optifye says that the software for building help to factory owners in the knowledge who works-who is not-in real time because of security cameras powered by artificial intelligence, which he places on assembly lines, in keeping with this, in keeping with this, in keeping with this His YC profile.
On Monday, YC published Optify Video demo on x (And further LinkedIn), in keeping with the shutter saved by TechCrunch.
Video It shows the co-founder of Optifye, Kushal Mohta acting as the head of the clothing factory, calling his supervisor-actually his co-founder Vivaan Baid-O low-efficient worker known only as “number 17”.
“Hey number 17, what is going on on, man? You are red – asks the worker who replies that he worked all day.
“Do you’re employed all day? Even once you have not hit the hourly output and you had 11.4% performance. It is really bad, says Baid.
After checking the Optifye dashboard, the supervisor looks at the results of “number 17” for 15 days, he decides that the worker is worse and causes an worker on it.
“A rough day? More like a hard month, “he says.
The clip was heavily criticized on X, where @vcbrags He called it “Sweathops-as-a-Service” and other He considered this as a “computer vision software”. It is too caused criticism On your personal site Y Comker Hacker Site.
However, not everyone was critical. Eoghan McCABE, CEO of Customer Service Starts, He published it Everyone who complains higher, stop buying products made in China and India.
Indeed, it is not very difficult to seek out technology firms in China promoting The “sleep detection” camera, which, for example, uses a computer vision to detect sleeping employees.
Anyway, YC finally removed demonstration videos from its communities, but not earlier rescued By several Accounts.
Neither YC nor Optifye.Ai didn’t answer the request for comment.
Probable unintentional film virus show the growing concerns about the creation of artificial intelligence, especially in the workplace.
Most Americans oppose the use of artificial intelligence to trace time, move, move and use the computer, Pew survey Found in 2023. It is a segment of supervision products, sometimes called “bossware”.
This, nevertheless, didn’t stop VC from financing space. For example, invisible artificial intelligence collected $ 15 million in 2022 to attach employees monitoring cameras in factories.