AI Companies Free Cleaning: An AI company named Micro AGI in New York City is offering people to clean the house and cook and serve their favorite food to the people for free. In return, they will record every action with caps fitted with cameras on their heads. Experts are seeing this as a bribe in exchange for privacy, which could have bad consequences.
Here AI companies are offering free cleaning and cooking services to people’s homes. However, in return they will take data from every corner of your house to train the robots. The name of this initiative of a company named Micro AGI is Shift.
Take free service, give privacy
College pass out youth in New York are working for AI companies offering cleaning services. These youth doing cleaning and cooking are given caps with special cameras, which are directly connected to the phone. When these people clean houses or wash utensils, their hand movements and working methods are recorded every moment.
Actually, the aim of these AI companies is to teach robots how to use their hands like humans. According to reports, Berkan Kilic, who started this initiative named Shift, associates this data collection with humanity. He believes that with this, robots can learn to do all types of household work.
All efforts are being made for data
- There is actually a strong business model behind the offer of free house cleaning or cooking.
- The real objective of this company is to sell the data collected from inside homes to other AI and robotics companies at huge profits.
- This company claims that the data will be kept completely anonymous and no one’s identity will be revealed.
- The company’s future target is to offer such free services for every task done by humans.
- Apart from providing free service to homes in New York City, this company is also currently collecting data on car repairs through mechanics in Türkiye.(REF.)
Experts’ warning
According to reports, privacy experts are giving a strong warning against selling the privacy of oneself and one’s home in exchange for data. Experts say that this is a kind of bribe, which in return takes your privacy from you and it can also be quite dangerous.
These experts say that the information being taken from you today in exchange for a one-time free service can be used against you by companies in the future for advertising and monitoring. Apart from this, this technology will take away the jobs of sanitation workers in future. The company’s argument on this is that instead of stealing data from people, they are clearly taking data from them in exchange for free service.
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