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When ChatGPT first arrived, some schools immediately banned the generative AI tool over concerns that students might use it to cheat. Years later, a new AI tool made specifically for cheating is going viral.
What’s even crazier is that the two college students who developed Cluely, the cheating AI in question, got expelled from Columbia after one of them used an early version of the AI program to help with a job interview with Amazon.
Cluely, which you can try for free, just raised $5.3 million in funding, proving that cheating with AI in the age of AI is a thing. But, spoiler alert, the product Cluely proposes might become much bigger than something that helps you cheat during job interviews.
21-year-old Chungin “Roy” Lee went viral a few weeks ago by posting on social media news that Columbia kicked him out after he used an AI tool called Interview Coder to get a job with Amazon.
Interview Coder was a program that Lee (CEO of Cluely) and Neel Shanmugam (COO of Cluely) developed before turning it into a viral gimmick. Interview Coder is now part of Cluely, which you can try for free to cheat at whatever you want. It can listen in on Zoom calls in real time and provide helpful answers to questions.
Cluely doesn’t just work with job interviews. It’ll handle anything you throw at it as long as it involves operating a video chat tool like Zoom that Cluely AI can monitor.
The Cluely app, currently available on Macs, runs inside an in-browser window that the other person in the Zoom call can’t view. The AI will listen to what the other person is saying, turn that speech into text, and feed it to an unnamed AI in the cloud, which will then tell you the right thing to say.