AI Foremen Now Monitor Chinese Factory Workers in Real Time via Cameras
Syntetisaattori · x · 2026-10-13
A viral post describes Chinese factories replacing human supervisors with computer-vision AI that tracks workers' movements in real time, analyzes minute-by-minute efficiency, and auto-generates reports used to decide performance and dismissals — raising debate over productivity gains vs. a dystopian workplace.
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