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Drukob@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto

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AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto

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Drukob@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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An ambitious company that claimed to make apps using AI has been exposed as hundreds of human workers based in India.
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    2 months ago

    What’s next? Am I going to find out my AI girlfriend is actually a real woman? Smh my head, can’t trust anything these days

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      Shit in My Hands?

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        Is there any other way?

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      Old Doge meme. A Shiba Inu is pulling a frowning face holding an old Nokia cellphone up to his ear. Caption reads:"Mom come here and pick me up. There are girls here"

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        Oh my god I miss peak dogelore so much. I wasted so much time making those memes, and I miss it 😢

        • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          It was a simpler time 🥲

    • zarathustra0@lemmy.world
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      No, it is a teenage boy from Mombasa.

      • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I…nvm

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    I don’t even know what to say. How can you make jokes when reality already is making them for you? Have we finally entered The Onion Timeline?

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    1 month ago

    Anyone remember Cha-Cha?

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
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      Charming!

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    I’ve got so indian answers from perplexity, and from chatgpt too… so this is why!

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      Removed by mod

  • Ayano @sopuli.xyz
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    reminds me of the time when something with Amazon was Indian employees

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    I wonder if they produced better results than an AI would

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      Probably. A startup flush with cash could probably afford to hire good talent.

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    AI: always Indian

    • CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world
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      Actually Indian

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        All Indian

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          Another Indian

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    You mean to tell me this AI company was actually 700 Indian engineers in a trenchcoat?

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      They were doing a business.

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      Actually Indians is the best type of AI

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        Asian Intelligence?

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          Actually Indians

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            Like from Gary?

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            When Tesler introduced their “AI” robots a few months ago in a meet-and-greet, someone said AI stood for “Another Indian.”

            They spoke like social media managers, and it seemed to me like they were being remotely operated, so there’s a fair possibility that person was accidentally right.

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      Used to be thousands of if-statements in a trench coat. But even that got offshored 😮‍💨

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    How they found out https://youtu.be/9EJrwLOH1RE

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    First to push forward and invented AAI, Artificial Artificial Intelligence.

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      Let’s see them compete with natural stupidity

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    I hope this isn’t part of a larger trend of human labor being devalued because companies pretend it’s just machine labor. I hope that’s literally impossible.

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      A lot of companies have been doing this for years. AWS literally sells this as a service: https://www.mturk.com/

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        Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

        Who names this shit? I want to have a serious talk with their mother.

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          deleted by creator

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            Yeah the whole AWS ecosystem has a super shitty naming. Everybody knows S3, but what kind of name is that? All the other services are no better

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              Simple Storage Service

              E: I agree that their names are shit though. But S3 makes sense (once you know what it means). Just like boto3 makes sense (once you know what it means)

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                Probably inspired by the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, or 3m for short

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              Still better than EC2 and the lights. Where is EC1? And what about 3?

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          OracleMaker was too problematic.

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        i like that they named it after one of the most notorious instances of fraud.

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    Gets “AI”

    looks inside

    Badly paid employees

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      “Actually Indians”.

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    They should have had 701

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    Subvertisement by Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives (Darren Cullen)

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      https://youtu.be/MBs-rQluA1Q

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    but it turns out all that cash was going toward a workforce of over 700 Indian engineers, rather than an AI.

    I doubt much of that cash was going to their workforce. Should have though.

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