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.
Isn't this exactly what Amazon got exposed for doing with their experimental grocery stores?
Shh. That's different. /s
Hey wait a minute, you're not an AI! You're just 700 Indian engineers in a trench coat!
This is how you move money from wealthy investors to workers. Well done, I hope to see many copy cats.
I 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.
Also the employees who got laid off and replaced by this AI aren’t getting paid either.
Funnily the Indian constitution specifically mentions it's supposed to be building socialism
Eh....more like moving money from wealthy investors to not as wealthy conmen.
I mean, they still did the work didn't they?
AGI = A guy instead
AGI: A Guy in India
AI: An Indian
API: A Person in India
UI: Underpaid Indian
AI = Actually Indians
(I stole this and I'm not giving it back)
A Guy in India
And still used less energy than an LLM.
Wasn'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.
So the correct backronym for AI is "All Indians"?
“Actually Indians”
It was right there and I didn't see it. Well done. Hat tip.
Those guys must've had a damn good WPM in touch typing though. They can probably reskill to court stenographers on a dime.
Or, copy paste to a another LLM…
If I had a nickel for every time this happened in recent memory, I'd have at least two nickels...
...which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice
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.