Columbia Student Kicked Out for Creating AI to Cheat, Raises Millions to Turn It Into a Startup
Over the past few months, a 21-year-old undergraduate went from viral sensation to startup founder after getting kicked out of Columbia for creating an AI that helps you cheat. In a LinkedIn post announcing a very successful seed fundraising round, founder Chungin "Roy" Lee explained that his software, which was formerly called Interview Coder and is now called Cluely, is a "completely undetectable AI that sees your screen, hears your audio, and gives you real-time assistance in any situation." To Lee's mind, that use case doesn't constitute "cheating." Columbia, clearly, disagreed when it sought disciplinary action against him and his […]
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