A demo from Optifye.ai, a member of the current Y Combinator, triggered a social media reaction that ended up with YC deleting it from its social.
Optiphye says they are construction software to help factory owners know who is working-and who is not-in “real time” thanks to AI-operating security cameras, according to AI, according to your profile yc.
Monday, YC posted a Optifye show video to x (and up Linkedin), according to a snapshot stored by TechCrunch.
The video It shows co-founder OPTIFYE KUSHAL MOHTA who acts as a boss of a clothing plant, calling for a supervisor-the co-founder of Vivaan Baid-for a low performance worker known as “number 17.”
‘Hi Number 17, what’s going on? You’re in the red “, Baid asks the worker, who responds to working all day.
“Work all day? You haven’t hit your hourly outing even once and you had 11.4%. This is really bad, “Baid responds.
After checking the Optifye Control Panel, the supervisor examines the exit of “number 17” for 15 days, decides that the employee has been degraded and calls on the employee.
‘I was currently in the day? More like a rough month, “he says.
The clip was strongly criticized in x, where @vcbrags named it “Sweatshops-as-a-service” and other He considered it “Sweatshop Computer Vision software”. Are also So criticism About his own site Hacker site news news of Y Combinator.
But not everyone was crucial. Eoghan McCabe, CEO of Intercom Startup Support Customer Support, published this Anyone who complains best to stop buying products manufactured in China and India.
Indeed, it is not very difficult to find technology companies in China crap A “sleep detection” camera that uses the computer’s vision to locate the bedrooms, for example.
Either way, YC endedly deleting the video from his social but not before that stored with several Accounts.
Neither the YC nor the Optifye.ai responded to a request for comments.
The possible unpredictable biology of the video raises increasing concerns about the rise of AI, especially in the workplace.
Most Americans oppose the use of AI to monitor the time, movements and use of employee computer Found in 2023. This is a section of surveillance products sometimes called “bossware”.
This has not stopped VCS from funding the space, however. Invisible AI, for example, increased $ 15 million in 2022 to stick to workers’ surveillance cameras and factories.
