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Drukob@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 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 · 7 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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    AI stands for “actually indians”?

    • Batman@lemmy.world
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      I’m waiting for “generalized” actually Indians

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        You mean A Guy Instead?

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      Always Infosys

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      All Indians.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      IP is “Infact Pakistanis”

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        And what’s TCP/IP?

        • DUMBASS@leminal.space
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          Todays chosen Pakistani/Instant Pakistani

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    What do you mean the new llm I invested in is just 700 Indians in a trench coat?!

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    "Welcome back to tonight’s episode of “Is it AI or 700 Indian Engineers!!” 👏🏾👏🏾 👏🏾

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      I’m picturing a room of people with protractors ray tracing Doom.

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    Crazy that 700 professionals in india is cheaper than a compute/data centre.

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      700 professionals in India probably make more coherent software than AI.

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        100%, but i dont think that will stay true for too long.

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          Of course. Just one more nuclear reactor bro, just one more trillion dollars investment bro

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            Oh is that what itll cost? /s

            • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
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              Yeah. Trust me on this, bro

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          In the meantime. This is a valid business model.

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            Depends what you mean by “valid”. If you mean “profitable”, sure: Fraud has always been a profitable business model.

            But if you mean “valid” in terms of what Microsoft got out of their $455M investment, not so much, as they wanted a great new AI model, not the output that the “human-powered” model produced pretending to be an AI.

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      a data center isnt cheap, probably cost billions, a year to operate or millions. plus all the side effects, like power requirement and water waste.

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        I can run a small model on my home pc, if i had access to those kinds of resources, i could run a AI data centre for profit, probably more rssource efficient than those 700 dudes as well.

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

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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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    in a trench coat

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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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          Amazon web services are incomprehensible. The names aren’t good either

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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 likes. Where is EC1? And what about 3?

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                EC3 is wrestling in NWA now.

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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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    Next do “self driving cars”

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      You mean the 40 horsepower is actually 40 Indians under the hood??

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      Check the trunk for an Indian guy with a street map.

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    They should have had 701

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    reminds me of the time when something with Amazon was Indian employees

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    “Sachin! Quick, look up the best way to impress a first date who is vegetarian!”

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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!

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      I wonder how they would answer if asked about Kashmir

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    Goodbye! Onto the next one

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