AI TOOL IDENTIFIES CHINESE PRODUCTS LINKED TO UYGHUR FORCED LABOUR

Chinese-owned digital marketplace Temu may allow sellers to bypass US trade laws

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Tech firm Ultra has created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that it says helps analysts identify products coming from China through Temu, a digital marketplace platform, that were built using forced labour, possibly from the Uyghur population, as per the media report.

Ram Ben Tzion, founder and CEO of Ultra, said, “We are looking at Temu from the perspective of the Forced Labour Prevention Act. How many things do we not want coming into the country using this method? The good cases are counterfeit. The worst cases are poor quality.” “I am quite confident that illicit elements can find themselves going through this platform into the market, so it’s time to demand accountability,” he added.

Ben Tzion’s company designed a programme called Publican that brings in a huge amount of shipping data to analyse and keep a check on patterns and red flags for any products with potential fraud issues, as per Fox News.