Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers

Optifye.ai is a dystopian company backed by Y Combinator. They’re using AI to further dehumanise and abuse individual factory workers and treat them like disposable automatons.

See a now deleted post where they show how it works:

https://hachyderm.io/@YvanDaSilva/114063748264591929

The founders look to be a couple of rich kids with little world and work experience:

> We’re CS grads from Duke and because our families run manufacturing companies (…)

They also display a profound lack of empathy by bragging about lowering stress for rich company owners, which they do by increasing the stress of everyone who works for them:

> Know any manufacturing company owners?

> Let us know at founders@optifye.ai, and we’ll help them drop their cortisol levels :)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/optifye-ai

This is the AI world we all know is coming, brought to you by Y Combinator investors and founders. It doesn’t “benefit humanity”, it just serves to “put you in your place”.

This kind of product is really shameful, and peak capitalism... looking at people as mere robots to serve your, disgusting

I find the marketing interesting considering that this product already exists in other continents ... and it is NOT deployed in factories. It is deployed in office settings. If this our future? Lots of video evidence: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Using+AI+to+mo... Expect dishonest marketing by those aspiring to build these surveillance and anti-freedom systems in our western countries.

Peak capitalism would have the employees holding their own value and not being crushed in trash power dynamics to allow this kind of stuff. Capitalism is about nonviolent voluntary exchanges between two parties, when one party has a power dynamic skewed in such a way they can use tools like this that employees hate, then that’s not capitalism anymore.

Imagine the features you could add to this. Like a robot that walks around behind the workers and gives well-timed corrective communications with a whip.