AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto
AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto
An ambitious company that claimed to make apps using AI has been exposed as hundreds of human workers based in India.

Hey wait a minute, you're not an AI! You're just 700 Indian engineers in a trench coat!
68 0 ReplyThis is how you move money from wealthy investors to workers. Well done, I hope to see many copy cats.
48 0 ReplyI mean, the workers weren't exactly getting paid well. I guess a paycheck is better than no paycheck, but they weren't building a socialist utopia here.
21 0 ReplyAlso the employees who got laid off and replaced by this AI aren’t getting paid either.
3 0 ReplyFunnily the Indian constitution specifically mentions it's supposed to be building socialism
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Eh....more like moving money from wealthy investors to not as wealthy conmen.
10 0 ReplyI mean, they still did the work didn't they?
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AGI = A guy instead
39 0 ReplyAGI: A Guy in India
AI: An Indian
API: A Person in India
UI: Underpaid Indian
1 0 ReplyAI = Actually Indians
(I stole this and I'm not giving it back)
9 0 ReplyA Guy in India
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And still used less energy than an LLM.
27 0 ReplyWasn't a room full of indian dudes literally the backend of Amazon's "AI based" convenience store a few years back?
It's great example of making an MVP. Bullshit as much and as cheaply as you can until you know the market demands it.
25 0 ReplySo the correct backronym for AI is "All Indians"?
23 0 Reply“Actually Indians”
5 0 ReplyIt was right there and I didn't see it. Well done. Hat tip.
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Those guys must've had a damn good WPM in touch typing though. They can probably reskill to court stenographers on a dime.
19 0 ReplyOr, copy paste to a another LLM…
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If I had a nickel for every time this happened in recent memory, I'd have at least two nickels...
13 0 Reply...which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice
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Isn't this exactly what Amazon got exposed for doing with their experimental grocery stores?
12 0 ReplyShh. That's different. /s
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I don't get it
Edit: oh, its because the company wasn't producing a prompt-based service like ChatGPT. Their business was "making apps with AI". And apparently they had a team of people making the apps.
I still don't know what anyone else expected. I'm sure those devs were using AI to spit out functions, but you're always going to have to have a human clean up the AI slop so it actually works. So of course this is how the industry will work. Indians are just smarter than US Americans, I guess.
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