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[-] zieg989@programming.dev 158 points 2 days ago

I would not be surprized if Anthropic would actually hire a real developer to make these PRs as a marketing stunt

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 189 points 2 days ago

Well, if the model detected an issue, and a human tested it to make sure it was real and then fixed it, I think that's an acceptable use of AI tools.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 66 points 2 days ago

Yeh, AI as an assistant/tool. Not as a replacement

[-] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 83 points 2 days ago

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

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

[-] Meron35@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

AI: Actually Indians

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago

So this is basically a rebrand of fiverrr or whatever it's called?

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

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