And combinator eliminates publications after the demonstration of a startup becomes viral

A demonstration of Optify.ai, a member of the current cohort of and Combinator, caused a reaction of social networks that ended with and el eliminating it from its social.

Optify says that he is building software to help the factory owners to know who is working, and who is not, in “real time” thanks to the security cameras with ai that places in the assembly lines, according to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MsF-optifye-ai–ai-performance-monitoring-for-factory-workers”>Your YC profile.

On Monday, and C published a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.optifye.ai/”>Opter Demonstration video <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1894115085087297921″>in x (and LinkedIn), according to a snapshot kept by Techcrunch.

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/AdamLerman5/status/1894215433366245457″>The video It shows the co -founder of Optify, Kushal Mohta, acting as the head of a clothing factory, calling a supervisor, actually his co -founder Vivaan Baid, about a low performance worker known only as “number 17”.

“Hello number 17, what is happening, man? You are in red, ”Baid asks the worker, who replies that he has been working all day.

“Working all day? He has not reached his exit per hour once and had 11.4% efficiency. This is really bad, ”says Baid.

After verifying the Optify board, the supervisor analyzes the production of “number 17” for 15 days, decides that the worker has had a lower performance and calls the worker.

“Difficult day? More as a difficult month, “he says.

The clip was very criticized in x, where @vcbrags <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/vcbrags/status/1894454286370709858?s=46″>He called it “Exploitation sizes as a service” and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/miranda_nover/status/1894197679447838954″>other He considered it “Sabblo's software of his computer vision.” Also Simpor criticism In the and Combinator Hacker News Link Site.

However, not everyone was critical. Eoghan McCabe, CEO of Customer Service, Intercom, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/eoghan/status/1894412092415017270″>Posted that Anyone who complains better stop buying products manufactured in China and India.

In fact, it is not too difficult to find technological companies in China promotion A 'sleep detection' camera that uses computer vision to detect sleeping workers, for example.

Anyway, and C ended up eliminating the demonstration video of its social, but not before it was <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/archiexzzz/status/1894285551064285449″>saved by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/cdolan92/status/1894216778126959027″>several Accounts

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Neither yc nor Optify.ai responded to a request for comments.

The involuntary virality of the video shows the growing anxieties about the emergence of ai, especially in the workplace.

Most Americans oppose the use of ai to trace the workers' desktop, movements and computer use, a PEW survey <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/04/20/americans-views-on-use-of-ai-to-monitor-and-evaluate-workers/”>found in 2023. This is a segment of surveillance products sometimes called “bosses.”

However, that has not prevented VC from finance the space. Invisible ai, for example, raised $ 15 million in 2022 to obtain workers' monitoring cameras as well as.