On Sunday, 21 -year -old Chungin “Roy” Lee announced It has raised $ 5.3 million in seed funding by Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures to start it, Cluely, offering an AI tool to “deceive everything”.
Starting was born after Lee posted In a yarn of the viral X suspended by the University of Columbia, after he and his co -founder developed a tool to deceive work interviews for software engineers.
This tool, originally called Coder Interview, is now part of the San Francisco -based boot Clippers. It offers its users the opportunity to “deceive” things such as exams, sales calls and work interviews thanks to a hidden window in the browser that cannot be viewed by the researcher or the test donor.
Cluely has published A manifesto Comparing himself to inventions such as calculator and spelling, which were initially undergoing “deception”.
Cluely also published a seemingly but polarized, LEE video start using a hidden AI assistant for (unsuccessfully) lies to a woman about his age, and even knowledge of art, on a date in a fancy restaurant:
While some praise The video of people’s attention, others have ruled out that they are reminiscent of the Sci-Fi TV show “Black Mirror”:
Lee, who is Cluely’s CEO, told TechCrunch that the AI deception tool exceeded $ 3 million in ARR earlier this month.
The other co -founder of the start is another 21 -year -old former Columbia student, Neel Shanmugam, who is Cluely’s Coo. Shanmugam is also involved in disciplinary procedures in Columbia through the AI tool. Both co -founders have left Columbia, university student newspaper referenced Last week. Columbia refused to comment, citing the laws of protecting students’ privacy.
Cluely started as a tool for developers to deceive Leetcode’s knowledge, a platform for encoding questions that some in engineering cycles – including Cluely founders, of course – consider outdated and lost time.
Lee says he was able to hit a practical exercise with Amazon using the AI deception tool. Amazon refused to comment on Lee’s particular case at TechCrunch, but said the job candidates should recognize that they would not use unauthorized tools during the interview process.
CLUELY is not the only controversial AI start that started this month. Earlier, a renowned AI researcher announced his own start with the reported mission to replace all human workers everywhere, causing his own Brouhaha on X.
