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Free Home Cleanings for Robot Training
Shift offered free home cleanings in New York where cleaners wear a camera-equipped “magic hat” to record POV footage used to train household robots — trading spotless apartments for anonymised training data and media attention.
Why it worked: It flipped a taboo—inviting surveillance into private homes—into a tangible perk (a free cleaning), creating a clear privacy-for-value trade journalists can debate.
The lesson: Consider bartering a valuable, tangible service for opt‑in data capture in an unexpected context, then spotlight the ethical tension in the pitch.
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