In India, at first glance, a IT startup, has risked the latest neural network called Natasha and attracted hundreds of millions of dollars to invest, turned out to be a trivial fraud. Instead of an Indian company that is widely advertised Builderai, artificial intelligence (AI) with an attractive female name, in fact, the program code is written manually by about 700 Indian programmers conspired.
This situation is carefully hidden by owners of Buildrai, actively promoting their “creative IT products” for the digital service market. Moreover, it has been so convincing that even digital giant companies such as Microsoft have invested in a commercial Natasha. In total, Indian startup has attracted about 445 million dollars, which investors are expected to recapture in the market that is growing rapidly.
In fact, AI is far from artificial, but India deeply. In the literal sense of the word – instead of creating computer programs and applications using Natasha neuros, promising users and investors, Builderai has shifted the request of users to their Indian office, where hundreds of programmers imitate their work and write software by hand. It is not easy to recognize the fraud, because customers actually receive working applications and the quality of the code in the time without causing doubts.
The Viking's program has worked successfully for eight years, but after the deception was opened, Buildrai quickly declared bankruptcy and closed the company. Experts in the field quickly become popular of solutions II noted that Natasha's case is questioned in many similar startups. And they are wondering: Even if big investors like Microsoft fall into the bait of scammers, how safe is it investing in such “high -tech” projects?
To be fair, it is worth noting that India is famous for its tradition of strong IT field, this is one of the drivers of the national economy. Therefore, according to the Association of Indian National Service and Software Development Associations, by 2024, the Digital Industry of the Republic of South Asia made a profit of nearly $ 254 billion and brought about 10 % of the country's GDP.