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😀 AI, but make it manual

Turns out Builder.ai’s → “AI assistant” Natasha was just hundreds of Indian developers writing code by hand.

The bankrupt UK startup had raised hundreds of millions — including from Microsoft — despite media calling out the lie as far back as 2019.

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Durov˙s Code Hundreds of Indian developers were secretly powering Builder.ai’s “AI” assistant British startup Builder.ai faked its AI assistant by using hundreds of Indian developers to manually write code.
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