Every year, it seems like there’s at least one big YC controversy
Optifye.ai, a Y Combinator-Stunder Startup, trained enormous social media backlash this week after the demo went viral. The video, which shows how the AI-driven cameras follow factory workers in real-time factory workers, fought quickly online, with criticism of X and Hacker News. In the clip, a supervisor calls on an under -performance employee and leads to a broader conversation about supervision, employee rights and the growing role of AI in the workplace.
Today, on the Equity -Podcast of WAN, Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff and Anthony HA is organizing the greatest stories of the week, including the controversy of Optifye.ai, the broader concerns about AI in Labor and why this demo could be a glimpse of what is coming.
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