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highplainsdem

(55,503 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:17 PM 11 hrs ago

New AI app designed specifically for cheating - "So, start cheating. Because when everyone does, no one is."

The app was created by two Columbia students suspended for cheating. They've already raised several million.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/this-ai-tool-helps-you-cheat-on-job-interviews-sales-calls-exams

Two former Columbia University students have come up with an AI tool that helps people "cheat on everything," including job interviews, sales calls, and online exams.

Called Cluely, the tool launches an in-browser window that produces AI-generated responses to any questions. According to the company website, it's "a completely undetectable desktop assistant that sees your screen and hears your audio." Even if the interviewer asks you to share your screen, they won't be able to see the translucent Cluely window visible to you.

While a standard version with limited features is available for free, the pro version with more powerful AI models costs $20 monthly or $100 annually.

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In a series of posts on X, Lee shared the suspension letter he received from the college, along with another letter from an Amazon executive. Per the letters, Lee had appeared in an interview for an Amazon SDE intern role, aced it, and received an offer. Later on, however, the Amazon exec found out about Lee's cheating tool via his YouTube video and reported him to Columbia. Lee had also received offers from Meta, TikTok, and Capital One.

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The section of the thread title in quotes is what's in the last two lines of these cheaters' "manifesto" - https://cluely.com/manifesto - which they probably had AI write for them. Earlier excerpts from the manifesto:

We built so you never have to think alone again.
It sees your screen. Hears your audio.
Feeds you answers in real time.
While others guess — you're already right.


Why memorize facts, write code, research anything
when a model can do it in seconds?


I first heard about this app when I saw a post from science fiction writer John Scalzi commenting on what humor writer Dan Sheehan - https://dansheehan.co/ - had said :

https://bsky.app/profile/scalzi.com/post/3lngxq3kpdk2d

I agree with both what Sheehan wrote - that these cheaters' manifesto "feels like an advertisement for spiritual death" - and what Scalzi wrote about the mainfesto: "Anyone who internalizes this line of bullshit will absolutely always be outflanked by people who know how to actually do things."

Of course, cheating as an objective has always been the appeal of generative AI to many of its users.

Instant (fake) talent.

Instant (fake) knowledge.

Instant (fake) work and creativity.

Fraud.

These cheating former college students are just more open about that than most AI users are.

And they deserve the biggest F the business world can give them for trying to market their cheating app.
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New AI app designed specifically for cheating - "So, start cheating. Because when everyone does, no one is." (Original Post) highplainsdem 11 hrs ago OP
So, when do they start work in the F47 administration? 0rganism 11 hrs ago #1
I agree it is Trump's kind of attitude. highplainsdem 10 hrs ago #5
There are no ethics anymore. n/t Coventina 11 hrs ago #2
Disgusting, isn't it? SheltieLover 10 hrs ago #7
I swear, I can't wait to retire. Coventina 9 hrs ago #8
I hear you. SheltieLover 8 hrs ago #9
Unless the people are from another group of cheaters.............. Lovie777 11 hrs ago #3
Oh perfect lets let Pixar Super-Villian logic run the internet... Volaris 11 hrs ago #4
Why is this not illegal? SheltieLover 10 hrs ago #6

0rganism

(25,004 posts)
1. So, when do they start work in the F47 administration?
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:28 PM
11 hrs ago

This is just the kind of attitude F47 likes to see in his minions. They'll fit right in.

Coventina

(28,310 posts)
8. I swear, I can't wait to retire.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:50 PM
9 hrs ago

My discipline is now a dinosaur.

I just want to live out the rest of my days in peace and solitude.

*sigh*

Volaris

(10,824 posts)
4. Oh perfect lets let Pixar Super-Villian logic run the internet...
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:36 PM
11 hrs ago

'When everyone's Super, NO ONE WILL BE!'

It's as ethically, laughably stupid IRL as it was in the cartoon.

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