Net founder and former chief executive officer Albert Saniger, an AI shopping app that promised an “public” checkout experience, was accused of cheating investors on Wednesday, Accordingly In a press release of the US judiciary.
Established in 2018, Million from investors such as Nat Kotu and Fororuna Ventures has collected more than $ 50 million, recently Raising The Renegade led by Renegade Partners in a 38 million series in 2021.
Nat said that the users of its app thanks to AI, can buy from any e-commerce site with a single click. In reality, however, the NAT was manually relied on hundreds of human contractors at a call center in the Philippines, complaining of New York, the southern district of the dose.
Sanigar claims that the NAT was able to transfer the NAT online “without human intervention” raised several million people in the initiative, except failed to complete the AI transaction except for the cases on the edges. However, despite the acquisition of some AI technology and the appointment of data scientists, the original automation rate of its application was effectively 0 percent, the DOJ claimed.
The topic of the nets of human contractors was the matter An investigation By data in 2022.
Saniger did not respond to any request for comment. Sanigar is currently Listed As the Managing Partner of the New York VC Butterco, which does not respond to any request for comments.
DOJ Complaint It is said that the net had gone out of money and was forced to sell his wealth in January 2021. Albert Saniger’s LinkedIn profile indicates that he was no longer a CEO like 2021.
Net is not the only startup that complains that its AI capacity has exaggerated. For example, an ‘AI’ drive-threw software startup was originally driven by people in the Philippines, Verg Report In 2023.
Recently, Business Insider Report That an AI legal technology used to do unicorn, equal, people to work.