‘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 The first time the factory supervisors
When workers had cameras attached to them, they found it funny at first. But novelty soon turned to concern The first time the factory supervisors handed garment worker Lalita* a head-mounted camera, she burst out laughing.
“The way people mount a CCTV camera on a wall, they mounted one on us,” she says. The 32-year-old had been working at the garment factory on the outskirts of Delhi for nearly a year when management asked workers on her line to strap small cameras to their foreheads before starting their shifts.
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