Thread: AI means 'Actually India'

AI is really Indians scamming as AI.

For the past year, American tech workers have been told a familiar story: Artificial intelligence is replacing jobs. From boardrooms to press briefings, executives have framed workforce reductions as the inevitable result of machine learning and automation. It's the narrative that's guided mass layoffs across the industry.

But in the case of Salesforce, one of the most prominent voices in enterprise software, the facts point elsewhere.

Behind the company's public claims of AI-driven efficiency lies a more traditional and far more controversial strategy: offshoring. Between 2020 and 2024, Salesforce reduced its U.S. workforce by thousands while growing its employee base in India by more than 420%. Offices in San Francisco, Portland and other U.S. hubs were shuttered. Simultaneously, the company signed formal training and hiring agreements with the Indian government and celebrated explosive growth in Hyderabad, Mumbai and beyond.

Salesforce isn't alone in the illusion of automation. Amazon's heavily hyped "Just Walk Out" AI-powered checkout was, in truth, driven by over 1,000 workers in India manually reviewing surveillance footage. What was marketed as innovation was really offshore labor behind the scenes. Likewise, Microsoft's investment in a virtual assistant "Natasha" turned out to be 700 Indian employees posing as chatbots.

These weren't breakthroughs in AI; they were high-tech facades for cheap labor.

AI means 'Actually India': How Salesforce's AI smokescreen masks a mass labor shift out of America * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta



Hello AI!

Another one ..

Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5bn 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Actually Indians' Pretending to Be Bots

'It turns out the company had no AI and instead was just a group of Indian developers pretending to write code as AI,' he wrote in a LinkedIn post. Beliūnas also highlights that Duggal reportedly presented false revenue figures to investors. Remarkably, the company managed to sustain this deception for eight years.

Investor Dreams Shattered By Reality

The critical moment arrived when Viola Credit, which had provided the company with a $50 million loan in 2023, took control of $37 million (£27.33 million) from its accounts. This action rendered Builder.ai incapable of fulfilling payroll commitments or maintaining essential operations.

Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5bn 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Actually Indians' Pretending to Be Bots | IBTimes UK

Some reality ...

The race to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) still has a long way to run, according to Apple researchers who found that leading AI models still have trouble reasoning.

Recent updates to leading AI large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude have included large reasoning models (LRMs), but their fundamental capabilities, scaling properties, and limitations "remain insufficiently understood," said the Apple researchers in a June paper called "The Illusion of Thinking."

They noted that current evaluations primarily focus on established mathematical and coding benchmarks, "emphasizing final answer accuracy."

However, this evaluation does not provide insights into the reasoning capabilities of the AI models, they said.

The research contrasts with an expectation that artificial general intelligence is just a few years away.

AI Models Lack Reasoning Capability Needed For AGI