The Verge
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Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores
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Shift, an AI training startup, is offering free home cleaning services in New York with plans to expand to other cities, but in exchange collects video footage of cleaners performing household chores for AI training purposes.
Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores
This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free. It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal.
But there's a catch. There's always a catch.
In exchange for the cleaning, Shift wants footage of its cleaners at work: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting tables, mopping floors. It wants everything. Video of all the boring domestic labor we'd happily outsource if we could - and
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