A 21-year-old entrepreneur, Chungin “Roy” Lee, has raised $5.3 million for his startup Cluely, which provides an AI cheating tool for helping users during exams, interviews, and calls without being noticed. [Source: TechCrunch]
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The AI cheating tool
As disclosed by Lee, he has raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures for his startup, Cluely — an AI tool designed to help users “cheat on everything.”
After Lee was suspended from Columbia University for building a tool to help software engineers cheat during job interviews, he was determined to bring a cheating tool to the world.
The tool, originally called Interview Coder, is now part of Cluely, Lee’s San Francisco-based company.
It has an AI-based hidden browser window for users to “cheat” on exams, sales calls, and job interviews.
The browser window can’t be viewed by the interviewer or test giver.
Cluely has published a manifesto comparing itself to inventions like the calculator and spellcheck, which were which were once considered “cheating.”
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