Australian startup with ‘AI girlfriends’ was actually operated by real people from Africa
A story has emerged online about an Australian startup that presented itself as a service offering “AI girlfriends” for users to chat and flirt with. However, it turned out that replies were not generated by neural networks but by real people from Africa, who spent days chatting with multiple users posing as artificial intelligence.
Source Futurism
One of these operators simultaneously managed conversations with several users, earning around five cents per message while working under strict key performance indicators and handling large volumes of correspondence. They told their relatives they worked in IT.
This case clearly illustrates how companies sometimes mask cheap human labor behind “AI” profiles to attract customers and investors by passing off human work as cutting-edge artificial intelligence.
