So he basically just set up a middleman that connected customers to physicians to sell a popular drug. On the one hand, it's easy to blame them for not being more careful with customer data or not being more honest with their advertising or being more compliant with any/all laws. And it's easy to point the finger at AI because they used it to code the product. On another hand, a whole lot of non-AI companies have als…
i don't think the article is saying the problems are AI's fault, just that the success is not the result of AI. this is being promoted as an AI success story, but it's actually a fraud success story.
Yeah, it sounds like they didn't even try to do things "the right way," whatever that is. You don't accidentally create hundreds of fake Facebook profiles, you don't accidentally create deepfakes for your marketing materials. The most charitable read I can give is that they just have faulty scruples. But it's hard to find the seed of a good idea that just went off the rails.