this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 6 days ago

Hey wait a minute, you're not an AI! You're just 700 Indian engineers in a trench coat!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is how you move money from wealthy investors to workers. Well done, I hope to see many copy cats.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I mean, the workers weren't exactly getting paid well. I guess a paycheck is better than no paycheck, but they weren't building a socialist utopia here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Also the employees who got laid off and replaced by this AI aren’t getting paid either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Funnily the Indian constitution specifically mentions it's supposed to be building socialism

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Eh....more like moving money from wealthy investors to not as wealthy conmen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I mean, they still did the work didn't they?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

AGI: A Guy in India

AI: An Indian

API: A Person in India

UI: Underpaid Indian

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

AI = Actually Indians

(I stole this and I'm not giving it back)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

A Guy in India

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago

Wasn't a room full of indian dudes literally the backend of Amazon's "AI based" convenience store a few years back?

It's great example of making an MVP. Bullshit as much and as cheaply as you can until you know the market demands it.

[–] BeigeAgenda 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So the correct backronym for AI is "All Indians"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

“Actually Indians”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

It was right there and I didn't see it. Well done. Hat tip.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

And still used less energy than an LLM.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Those guys must've had a damn good WPM in touch typing though. They can probably reskill to court stenographers on a dime.

[–] MadMadBunny 13 points 6 days ago

Or, copy paste to a another LLM…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't this exactly what Amazon got exposed for doing with their experimental grocery stores?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Shh. That's different. /s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I had a nickel for every time this happened in recent memory, I'd have at least two nickels...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

...which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I don't get it

Edit: oh, its because the company wasn't producing a prompt-based service like ChatGPT. Their business was "making apps with AI". And apparently they had a team of people making the apps.

I still don't know what anyone else expected. I'm sure those devs were using AI to spit out functions, but you're always going to have to have a human clean up the AI slop so it actually works. So of course this is how the industry will work. Indians are just smarter than US Americans, I guess.