A Company Will Clean Your Nasty Apartment For Free if You Let Them Record It

Dishes piling up? Trash well past the brim of the can? That thin layer of dust on your furniture starting to stratify? Well, if you’re in New York City and open to unusual propositions, there’s a company willing to take care of those and other unresolved house cleaning tasks you might have, all for free. The catch: you let the cleaners record the entire process inside your home from the cameras affixed to their “magic hats” to help train AI. The German startup behind this proposition, MicroAGI, invites New Yorkers amenable to this unusual trade offer to sign up on the task-recording platform Shift. At the site, untidy prospects can peruse a 3D tag cloud of chores the cleaners can sort out. Classics like vacuuming, dusting, and dishwashing are, of course, on offer. But if you’ve been meaning to get your fridge, pantry, or even a whole closet reorganized, they’ll apparently do that as well. Announced with a recent post on X, Shift’s introductory video attempts to explain how one’s free cleaning service might go down. The video opens with a plucky young lad knocking on an apartment door, ready to deliver some elbow grease. The company’s US GM, Harry Kilberg, then appears to convey Shi