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    Sheldan@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 17 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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    Sheldan@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 17 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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    • Mayor Poopington@lemmy.world
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      Hey wait a minute, you’re not an AI! You’re just 700 Indian engineers in a trench coat!

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      This is how you move money from wealthy investors to workers. Well done, I hope to see many copy cats.

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        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.

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          Also the employees who got laid off and replaced by this AI aren’t getting paid either.

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          Funnily 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.

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          I mean, they still did the work didn’t they?

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      AGI = A guy instead

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        AI = Actually Indians

        (I stole this and I’m not giving it back)

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        A Guy in India

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        AGI: A Guy in India

        AI: An Indian

        API: A Person in India

        UI: Underpaid Indian

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      And still used less energy than an LLM.

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      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.

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      So the correct backronym for AI is “All Indians”?

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        “Actually Indians”

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        It 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.

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        Or, 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…

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        …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?

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        Shh. 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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