A Company Will Clean Your Nasty Apartment For Free if You Let Them Record It
A German startup, MicroAGI, is offering free cleaning services in New York City in exchange for recording the process to train AI. The service, called Shift, allows users to select various cleaning tasks, from vacuuming to organizing closets. While the company assures that personal data will be anonymized, concerns remain about the lack of information on how to remove recorded sessions from their dataset.
- ▪MicroAGI's Shift offers free cleaning services in NYC if users allow recording of the process.
- ▪The service includes a variety of tasks, such as vacuuming and organizing, and is available for a limited time.
- ▪Shift promises to anonymize personal data captured during the cleaning sessions.
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Dishes piling up? Trash well past the brim of the can? That thin layer of dust on your furniture starting to stratify? Well, if you’re in New York City and open to unusual propositions, there’s a company willing to take care of those and other unresolved house cleaning tasks you might have, all for free. The catch: you let the cleaners record the entire process inside your home from the cameras affixed to their “magic hats” to help train…
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