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This AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinator (news.itsfoss.com)

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I just quit my 270 000$ job at Coinbase to join the first YCombinator fall batch with my cofounder @not_nang. We're building PearAI, an open source AI code editor.

Of course it is a cryptobro...

dawgt i chatgpt'd the license, anyone is free to use our app for free for whatever they want. if there's a problem with the license just lmk i'll change it. we busy building rn can't be bothered with legal

Yep, already hate that guy. Talks and behaves like an absolute dipshit.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I read your comment before the article and I thought you had made the second quote up lol, unbelievable. And people are throwing money at these guys?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sam Bankman Fried looks and talks like half of the people I know who failed out of college, and people trusted him with billions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True to his name, his bank got fried.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The Bankman fried the clients.

Sam's the Bankman.