| ▲ | jsheard 4 days ago | |||||||||||||
"Actually Indians" was coined to refer to "AI" products which turn out to be outsourced human labor in disguise. Builder.ai was the most infamous example. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ceejayoz 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Not the biggest example; Amazon pulled the same trick. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon... | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Conlectus 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
The idea that Builder.ai was Indian workers being sold as AI wasn’t true, by the way. That was made up by a crypto influencer on twitter and copied by sloppy news sites. They were a consulting firm that also sold an AI product, with the two clearly separated. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | kspacewalk2 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
It's amazing to me that the human-labour-in-disguise thing was first reported in 2019, but the company only went bankrupt in 2025. | ||||||||||||||
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