As someone who used to work at one of these places: shocking. It pretty much always is this way. They pretend it is AI, then when it comes out that it is prett

As someone who used to work at one of these places: shocking. It pretty much always is this way. They pretend it is AI, then when it comes out that it is pretty much all humans, they pivot to admitting it is "human-assisted". The humans were truly creating data that was being fed back in, that wasn't a lie. Engineers would have to poke at the bot a bit to get it out of corners it would get itself into occasionally. The big issue is the VC nature of the business. You are fighting a shot clock on an extremely hard problem. So you have to rush things out to get to the next step, then realize at the next step all of the data you collected, oops, can't be used because there was a small issue. Or maybe they realize a model was inaccurate and has to be rebuilt. I truly don't think a VC-funded true AI company is possible, especially for hard and fairly unbounded problems (speech is one thing, engineering is just... that's insane). If someone made a sustainable AI company that could run infinitely, that company would have a huge shot due to that financial position.