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builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers

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builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers

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Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 months ago

The company whose ‘AI’ was actually 700 humans in India

Disaster as Microsoft-backed unicorn implodes.

Article dated June 2025

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