Why an AI company cleaned my New York City apartment for free (opens original article in a new tab)

An AI company in New York offers free cleaning services in exchange for data collection from homes, using camera-equipped workers to train autonomous robots, raising privacy concerns.

• An AI company in New York offers free cleaning and cooking services in exchange for data collection from homes.
• The company, Shift, uses camera-equipped workers to gather data for training autonomous robots.
• Privacy experts warn about risks of sharing home data despite the free services.
• The company's business model relies on selling anonymized data to other AI and robotics firms.