An AI startup, Micro AGI, is offering free cooking and cleaning in New York City to amass first-person video data for training domestic robots, betting it can sell anonymized datasets to robotics and AI firms. Workers equipped with cap-mounted cameras clean about five apartments a day, capturing the dexterous, variable tasks robots will need to master in real homes. Privacy advocates warn the program exemplifies “pay-for-privacy” tactics and could expose sensitive in-home details while contributing to automation that displaces human labor. The company says participants are compensated with services and clear disclosure, and it aims to expand into other skills, including auto repair in Turkey.
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