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Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨neme@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/fintech-founder-charged-with-fraud-after-ai-shopping-app-found-to-be-powered-by-humans-in-the-philippines/

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  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does anyone know how many users this thing had? Because given how hard it was to find a screenshot of the app, it seems nobody was using this shit

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Amazon tried this at Whole Foods…

    They told investors AI was keeping track of what shopper picked up and charging them when they left, turned out it was just people in India or something individually following every shopper via security cameras. Obviously mistakes were frequent

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