CLUELY, an AI start that uses a hidden window on the browser to analyze internet conversations, has shooted in the reputation with the controversial claim that the characteristic of “unemployed” allows users to “deceive everything”.
The company’s co -founder, Roy Lee, is suspended by the University of Columbia to boast that he used CLUELY, initially called Coder interview, to “cheat” on a coding test when applying for a programmer work on Amazon.
On Tuesday, another Columbia University student Patrick Shen announced to X who had built ReallyA product designed to help catch “cheaters” that use Cluely. Marketing itself as “anti-inflammatory”, really claims that it can detect the use of unauthorized applications by respondents or others during online meetings.
But Truely’s release did not ran Lee.
“We don’t care if they can be detected or not,” Lee told TechCrunch last week. “The invisible function is not a key feature of Cluely. It is an elegant additive. In fact, most businesses choose to disable the invisible because of the legal impact.”
Lee responded to Shen in X with his real praise, but adding that Cluely “will probably start pushing our users to be much more transparent to use”.
As it secured a series of $ 15 million from Andreessen Horowitz last month, Cluely has shifted marketing strategy away from promoting “cheating”. The company’s label has recently changed from “deceives everything” to “everything you need. Before you ask … this feels like cheating.”
Cluely’s marketing tactics have been described as a rage-bait marketing, and now it seems that our company has caused us to think of its technology as a deception tool.
However, Lee has much greater aspirations for Cluely: taking the place of chatgpt.
“Every time you get to chatgpt.com, our goal is to create a world where you arrive instead of Cluely,” Lee said. “Cluely does the same thing with the chatgpt. The only difference is that he also knows what is on your screen and hears what is happening in your sound.”
