“You can trick anything with artificial intelligence (AI).”AI start-up ‘Cluely’, led by a 21-year-ol..

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“You can trick anything with artificial intelligence (AI).”

AI start-up ‘Cluely’, led by a 21-year-old young founder, is drawing attention by attracting $5.3 million (about 7.1 billion won) in seed investment.

According to TechCrunch on the 22nd, Clueli provides AI tools to help you use ‘cheat’ in various situations such as tests, interviews, sales, and calls. Users can receive real-time answers to questions or summary information from AI through an invisible window in the browser. This function is not visible to interviewers or exam supervisors, which in fact enables AI cheating.

At the center of the controversy is a 21-year-old co-founder named Jung-in Lee (Korean name Lee Jung-in) and Neil Shanmugam. Both were from Columbia University, and were disciplined by the school for trying to trick coding interviews through the AI tool, and eventually dropped out.

The first tool created by the two was called “Interview Codeer,” an AI that solves code problems in real time during developer job interviews.

The app detects coding problems as soon as they appear on the screen, captures them so that they are not displayed on the browser, and presents solutions in real time through AI. It was initially developed as a tool to pass coding tests for global IT companies.

In fact, CEO Lee passed online tests of large technology companies such as Amazon and Meta through this tool and even received an internship offer. During the interview with Amazon, he filmed himself using the tool and released it on YouTube, and the video attracted explosive attention centered on SNS.

According to NBC, CEO Lee ultimately rejected Amazon’s offer, and other companies withdrew their hiring after the use of AI tools became known.

Since then, the tool has been expanded to give birth to the current ‘Klueli’. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Currently, Clueli is expanding its capabilities beyond simple coding tests to meet various demands for cheating.

The company claims that it is “a technology that was initially criticized but will eventually become the standard, like a calculator or spell checker.”

Clueli’s recently released promotional video showed CEO Lee lying about his age and artistic knowledge with the help of AI while dating at a restaurant. Although the video was successful in drawing attention, there were also many voices of concern that it was reminiscent of a black mirror-style future.

“We’re changing the old rules of human-centered systems, not technology,” Lee told TechCrunch.