GoKawiilTL;DR Shift is a US company that’s offering to clean houses in NYC for free, and in exchange it will record videos of the process.
It will use the recordings to create and license AI training data.
The company also has plans to expand across the globe and offer additional free services.
How would you like to get your home cleaned by professionals without having to spend a single dollar? Sounds too good to be true, right? It kind of is, but it’s also entirely true as long as you’re comfortable with the process being recorded on video and used to train AI and household robots.
Shift is a US company that’s offering to clean apartments in New York City (NYC) for free in exchange for recording the entire cleaning process. In an X post, Shift said it will send professional cleaners to your house equipped with devices to record first-person footage of the service.
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It will then use this footage to create and license datasets to train robots and AI on how humans perform everyday tasks. Firsthand recordings and data like this are extremely useful for companies trying to build AI-powered solutions for household chores and daily tasks. It’s also the kind of real-world data that simply can’t be recreated without spending a ton of money. Shift’s solution, therefore, is to spend that money hiring professional cleaners and gather data on how they perform the tasks.
The company claims it will anonymize the footage before processing and licensing it for training purposes, which means any personal information shouldn’t make its way into the training data. Though the recordings are meant to capture a first-person view of the cleaning task, the company specifically states that it will blur any and all personally identifiable information from screens, ID cards, pieces of paper, and even cell phones.
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