I let people wearing cameras clean my apartment and cook a meal for me for free
I invited two cleaners and a chef from the startup Shift into my New York apartment.The workers cooked and cleaned for free — but recorded the process to train AI and robotics.Initially, I was nervous. I soon got used to the wires hanging from beneath their baseball caps.I let an AI startup film every inch of my apartment.That's a privacy nightmare — and yes, I did suitably hide all my personal items before they arrived.
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I invited two cleaners and a chef from the startup Shift into my New York apartment.The workers cooked and cleaned for free — but recorded the process to train AI and robotics.Initially, I was nervous. I soon got used to the wires hanging from beneath their baseball caps.I let an AI startup film every inch of my apartment.That's a privacy nightmare — and yes, I did suitably hide all my personal items before they arrived. But, as a 23-year-old living in New York on a journalist's budget, I'm not exactly splurging on house cleaners.These were free, so long as I agreed to the cameras.The cleaners came from Shift, a startup that offers free housekeeping across New York. The price is the video recording, which will later be used to train robots.
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- I invited two cleaners and a chef from the startup Shift into my New York apartment.The workers cooked and cleaned for free — but recorded the process to train AI and robotics.Initially, I was nervous. I soon got used to the wires hanging from beneath their baseball caps.I let an AI startup film every inch of my apartment.That's a privacy nightmare — and yes, I did suitably hide all my personal items before they arrived.
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I let people wearing cameras clean my apartment and cook a meal for me for free
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