AI for sweatshops? YC startup gets flamed for now-deleted product demo

AI for sweatshops? YC startup gets flamed for now-deleted product demo

The video generated immediate criticism and debate. 

“Leave it to a bunch of children who’ve never worked a real job for a single day in their lives — and still haven’t graduated college — to come up with some obnoxious slave driving dystopian shit like this,” Christopher Amidon, the founder of Subsea Robotics, wrote on X. Another user wrote: “YC promoted a demo … for slavery?” 

Vedant Nair, a founder who went through Y Combinator, struck a different tone. “1) YC…

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