New York Times Got Played by a Telehealth Scam and Called It the Future of AI

hn_acker

The full title is: > The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI

gnabgib

Related: BusinessInsider: Medvi, the AI telehealth is fueled by ads from doctors who don't appear to exist (2 points, 11 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673723 GaryMarcus: The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company" (65 points, yesterday, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668658 Contentious NYT: A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company (60 points, 5 days ago, 83 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612784

xarchive

Man could have kept low and build a nest egg until he gets busted by a functioning federal investigatory agency, but no, he has to stroke his ego and get a NYT profile and now his fraud is in the public eye.

nom

They were not wrong, scams are the future of AI.

fathermarz

I didn’t understand the hype on Medvi in the first place. I don’t think this type of credit can be given to “two people” when it actually makes money by being a middle-man service, selling other peoples skills, and other company’s products. I highly doubt they used AI to build the network…

add-sub-mul-div

Wow, how badly do you need to screw up to be seen as illegitimate compared to other web3/AI companies?

acjohnson55

When I read the article, I was taken aback by the clear references to fraud in the before and after photos. We're in an absolutely golden age of grift.