"The company's co-founder, Roy Lee, was suspended from Columbia University for boasting that he used Cluely, originally called Interview Coder, to "cheat" on a coding test."
"Cluely's marketing tactics have been described as rage-bait marketing, and now it seems that the company has baited us into thinking of its technology as a cheating tool."
"Lee responded to Shen on X by praising Truely, but adding that Cluely "will likely start prompting our users to be much more transparent about usage.""
"Since securing a $15 million Series A from Andreessen Horowitz last month, Cluely has shifted its marketing strategy away from promoting 'cheating.'"
Cluely, an AI startup, has risen to fame with its controversial undetectability feature that allows users to cheat in various contexts. Co-founder Roy Lee was suspended from Columbia University after claiming he used Cluely to cheat on a coding test for a job at Amazon. A student from Columbia has launched an anti-cheating tool called Truely to detect Cluely's usage during online meetings. Despite the backlash, Cluely is shifting its marketing away from a 'cheat' focus and aims to replace ChatGPT in the AI tool landscape.
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