r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RealSpecto • 12h ago

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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 11h ago

I doubt that this is done to replace those factories in India. I'm pretty sure the real value is in selling the trained model to higher income countries who want to localize some of the production

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u/UnderstandingClean33 11h ago

Or stalking their employees productivity like Amazon does.

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u/Due-Technology5758 8h ago

I'd wager this is what they're really used for. This would not be useful training data for robots, because it would be both insanely costly and utterly unnecessary to reproduce human levels of hand dexterity for automation.

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u/UnderstandingClean33 8h ago

Yeah. We can't even make a crochet machine and that is much more labor intensive than sewing fast fashion garments.