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shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

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

www.dexerto.com

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

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shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 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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    Weird way of stealing labor from 700 people.

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      Stolen? The employees were paid, weren’t they?

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        That is for the employees to decide.

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          OMG lemmy… The commieboos are ridiculous.

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          Are you actually insinuating that India has open-air slave markets?

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      Were they not paid?

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        Apparently they didn’t even know they were the AI

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          That’s nuts.

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      I mean, I could argue that it would likely be trivial for an employee to just forward all of their incoming chats straight to their ChatGPT. That would be an easy way to scam the scammers and passively rake in income.

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