I mean there are legit companies doing good work that get passed over all the time.

How did these 3 guys get hundreds of millions in government contracts for a product that didn’t even exist.

And not only did it not exist, they were demanding everybody let them violate their privacy so that their non-existent product could “end crime.”

I’ll just come out and say it, the “scandal” imo isn’t the company was a fraud part. The scandal is that people within the government wanted so badly to amp up surveillance and the police state within the U.S. they just went ahead and dumped all this money into A.I. that didn’t actually exist because “A.I. is already here and it will fix everything, and even if you don’t want it, too fucking bad.”

Like it was never that the government thought A.I. tech was that important, or the future, or whatever bullshit. They’ve just realized the tech industry allows them the ability to spy on people, control information, and make a shit ton of money doing it.