Theranos whistleblower warns AI boom offers easy cover for deception
What happened
On October 31, TechCrunch reported that Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warned the AI boom is "a great opportunity to deceive people." He said due diligence on AI companies is extremely hard, and investors struggle to tell genuinely novel technology from products that just wrap ChatGPT. He compared it to Theranos, which raised money from individual investors while refusing to show them scientific evidence. Unprofitable AI companies now raise at trillion-dollar valuations.
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- TechCrunch · AITheranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
Theranos 举报人 Tyler Shultz 警告，AI 热潮正成为"欺骗他人的绝佳机会"，因为对 AI 公司做尽职调查极其困难，很难分辨真正独特的新技术与 ChatGPT wrapper。他指出，Theranos 当年靠个人投资者募资、拒绝向潜在投资人披露科学证据，而如今未盈利的 AI 公司正以万亿美元估值融资。
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