A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he has raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat on everything”
We want to cheat on everything. Yep, you heard that right. Interviews. Business Today : AI startup Cluely raises $5.3 million to let users ‘cheat on everything,’ even job interviews and exams Sean McNulty / The Ankler : ☀️UNI's Next Video Game Franchise Move StrictlyVC : Google feels the heat, a cheating tool raises VC money, and robo runners fall short Brian Buntz / Research & Development World : One startup just pulled in $5.3 million to give coding job‑seekers an invisible AI ‘wingman,’ while another is vowing to wipe the job out entirely. Jason Nelson / Decrypt : Finally, AI That Helps Dishonest Morons Look Smart Stephen / Stove Top : Augmentation Today, Replacement Tomorrow Bluesky: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : It's honestly refreshing to see tech bros give up the pretense of trying to make the change the world for the better. — AI mass cheating tools will definitely change the world of interviews and likely the workplace as cheaters get hired in over their heads. Alain McKenna / @mcken : CaaS aka “Cheating-as-a-Service” [embedded post] @ramshackle78 : It's a bit more nuanced that this headline suggests. — Like Lee explains in his Hard Fork interview there are lots of tests nowadays that test nothing of value (not even to whoever is offering these tests) — @caseynewton.bsky.social — www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WEc... [embedded post] @hypervisible : I have good news for people looking for the example that best illustrates the current VC/ai landscape. Threads: Parker Thompson / @parkert : I was thinking today how our teachers banned us from using calculators and our kids' teachers designed better tests, so they use tech and also get much further in math. — People getting upset about this are missing the opportunity. — RE: https://www.threads.net/... Casey Newton / @crumbler : Step 2: Forbes 30 Under 30 — Step 3: Arrest and trial — RE: https://www.threads.net/... X: Roy / @im_roy_lee : Cluely is out. cheat on everything. [video] Shivers / @thinkingshivers : “At last, we have made the Whispering Earring from the classic sci-fi short story 'Don't Make the Whispering Earring'” @tautologer : what the fuck. what the fuck. this is evil Kyle DeSana / @kyledesana : - glance over the ToS - see “don't use this to cheat” - look up “deceptive marketing law” - read for 10 mins - see FTC Act §5 (15 U.S.C. § 45) - feed chatgpt the landing page and ToS and ask for a confidence score they're breaking FTC Act §5 (15 U.S.C. § 45) - receive score, [image] @trycluely : They called calculators cheating. They called Google cheating. The world will say the same about AI. We're not stopping. @trycluely just raised a $5.3M pre-seed to build the future — faster. Delian / @zebulgar : Columbia kicks this kid out And within a few months he's got a $5m seed round and a world class launch video Universities are so fkn retarded in 2025 Richard / @richardzphotoz : Not many founders would drop SIX FIGURES on a launch video. But @im_roy_lee did for the launch of Cluely. These videos are like your first impression. They dictate your brand, your credibility, and screams who you are. [image] Ryan Broderick / @broderick : I guess I just didn't fully grasp how many losers there are in the world. Like I knew there were a lot of losers out there, but the amount of losers that would have to exist to, one, make this product feasible and, two, to make this ad's existence possible is hard to process. @byyourlogic : WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? Can we round up everyone involved with this? Can we IMPRISON whoever allocated capital towards this BULLSHIT? I thought we'd have nano machines that could make you have 7% body fat by now and now we have CLUELY. Fuck YOU! @signulll : what ppl don't understand is that cheating, in its rawest form, is just an exploit. & exploits exist because systems are imperfect. when people cheat, they're not necessarily breaking rules, they're revealing where the rules were already broken. it's a stress test. it's Hunter / @statisticurban : I'm sure gutting collective faith in society and institutions for the sake of a quick buck is a perfectly sustainable long-term strategy, it's not like that's ever ended badly. Eli Schiff / @eli_schiff : I don't understand why a guy would commission an expensive commercial about his AI app in which he goes on a date, lies to a girl about his age, pays for her fancy dinner, and then despite all this couldn't get laid. He willingly chose this script. Can someone please explain? @tautologer : low trust society speedrun any% i condemn this in the strongest possible terms. if you cheer this on you are an enemy of the good LinkedIn: LinkedIn : Chungin Lee's Post See also Mediagazer