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Founder of Nate app faces fraud charge for using "AI" that was really human call center workers
Saniger launched the Nate app in 2018. It promises to act as a universal shopping cart that simplifies online shopping by enabling users to skip the checkout...
Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of shopping app Nate, tried to pass off the work of these flesh-and-blood contractors as AI, and has now been charged with defrauding investors by the DoJ. But according to the DoJ, it actually relied heavily on hundreds of human workers mostly located in call centers in the Philippines and Romania to manually complete the transactions. The DoJ indictment says that Nate was forced to sell its assets in January 2023 after running out of money, leaving investors with "near total" losses.
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