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Drukob@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days 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 · 24 days 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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  • Armand1@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Gets “AI”

    looks inside

    Badly paid employees

    • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      “Actually Indians”.

  • RalphFurley@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Anyone remember Cha-Cha?

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      Charming!

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

    • RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe
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      I wonder how they would answer if asked about Kashmir

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    “Sachin! Quick, look up the best way to impress a first date who is vegetarian!”

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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

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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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

      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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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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      Actually Indians is the best type of AI

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        Asian Intelligence?

        • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Actually Indians

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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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            Like from Gary?

    • tarknassus@lemmy.world
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      They were doing a business.

    • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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    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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    Weird headline. I know they mean “exposed as another mechanical turk ‘AI’ company” but headline appears to imply simply having Indian engineers was the problem.

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      Their Turks were actually Indians. They were deceiving their investors!

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        Right that’s what I meant! The Mechanical Turk was a classic/early instance of fake automation.

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    On the internet no one knows you are 700 Indian engineers.

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    700 Awesom-os

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