AI is widely perceived as being free from human intervention but the reality paints a more complicated picture. Nate is not the only company that has capitalized on AI through cheap labor overseas.

Albert Saniger, founder of the so-called AI-driven shopping app Nate, has been charged with defrauding investors by masking a human-powered operation as artificial intelligence. The US Department ...

Nate said its app’s users could buy from any e-commerce site with a single click, thanks to AI. In reality, however, Nate relied heavily on hundreds of human contractors in a call center in the ...