@testaccount789@sh.itjust.works
Post #2289946
2026-04-08 12:13 UTC
> In 2021, when Amazon launched its first “just walk out” grocery store in the UK in Ealing, west London, this newspaper reported on the cutting-edge technologies that Amazon said made it all possible: facial-recognition cameras, sensors on the shelves and, of course, “artificial intelligence”.
> An employee who worked on the technology said that actual humans – albeit distant and invisible ones, based in India – reviewed about 70% of sales made in the “cashier-less” shops as of mid-2022
[Source: The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon-ai-cashier-less-shops-humans-technology)
> UK AI company 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.
[Source: ACS Information Age](https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/the-company-whose--ai--was-actually-700-humans-in-india.html)
Replies (3)
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@CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2026-04-08 12:16
So this is basically a rebrand of fiverrr or whatever it's called?
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@Meron35@lemmy.world 2026-04-08 22:29
AI: Actually Indians
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@baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-08 13:44
builder AI was genuine AI, it's just that the company simultaneously also did contracted development with real humans. journalists got confused. there's a really good youtube documentary i watched which actually got into the tools and software used, but I can't find it anymore. either way, you can't dress up humans coding as AI. it's not fast enough.