AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136/
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jewbacca117@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 1y
jeena@piefed.jeena.net · 47 pts · 1y
This is how you move money from wealthy investors to workers. Well done, I hope to see many copy cats.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 1y
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.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Also the employees who got laid off and replaced by this AI aren’t getting paid either.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1y
Funnily the Indian constitution specifically mentions it's supposed to be building socialism
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
Eh....more like moving money from wealthy investors to not as wealthy conmen.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net · 5 pts · 1y
I mean, they still did the work didn't they?
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de · 41 pts · 1y
AGI = A guy instead
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 10 pts · 1y
AI = Actually Indians
(I stole this and I'm not giving it back)
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
A Guy in India
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
AGI: A Guy in India
AI: An Indian
API: A Person in India
UI: Underpaid Indian
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
And still used less energy than an LLM.
nucleative@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
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.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 1y
So the correct backronym for AI is "All Indians"?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
“Actually Indians”
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
It was right there and I didn't see it. Well done. Hat tip.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
Those guys must've had a damn good WPM in touch typing though. They can probably reskill to court stenographers on a dime.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 1y
Or, copy paste to a another LLM…
Whats_a_lemmy@ponder.cat · 14 pts · 1y
If I had a nickel for every time this happened in recent memory, I'd have at least two nickels...
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
...which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice
jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1y
Isn't this exactly what Amazon got exposed for doing with their experimental grocery stores?
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y
Shh. That's different. /s
jagged_circle@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 1y
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.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 1y