[yoyohello13]

I used to be really excited for stuff like this. Now I realize, home cleaning bots will basically just be cameras in your house reporting back everything it sees to the advertisers/government. Not a very utopian outlook anymore.

[QuercusMax]

At some point you're gonna be able to self host this stuff, which will likely be required for security reasons in some kinds of facilities. Now whether it's open and not spying on you still, that's another question.

[dnnddidiej]

I feel like a self host will be too expensive for most (like self hosting frontier models at a decent speed)

[switchbak]

Robo vacuums are already doing this. What a time to be alive and all that.

[enraged_camel]

I believe most robo vacuums have lidar and other sensors. They don't have cameras.

[switchbak]

2022 data leak, investigated by MIT "A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-i...

[Jordan-117]

Not to mention it directly targets a job category overwhelmingly held by poor and marginalized women, especially immigrants, in order to boost the profits of the automation company and the hotel chains it serves. Destroying the livelihoods of some of the most vulnerable and exploited workers on the planet with no pretense of caring what happens to them or their families.

Any company like this actively working to liquidate entire categories of menial work with no tangible support for sufficient social safety net programs and retraining is both sociopathic and digging its own grave for the inevitable populist backlash against what's shaping up to be the biggest class war in history. It's too broad a change, too fast, and these companies are running society off a cliff with no care for what happens when gravity kicks in. (Apart from the techno-fascists who plan on bunkering down while crushing the desperate masses with surveillance and killer robots, ofc.)