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The person who exposed the "female Steve Jobs" scam warned that the AI boom may spawn the next Theranos. Tyler Shultz, who participated in exposing the fraud scandal of the American blood testing company Theranos, recently warned that the AI investment boom is creating conditions for the next Theranos-like scam.
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The person who exposed the "female Steve Jobs" scam warned that the AI boom may spawn the next Theranos. Tyler Shultz, who participated in exposing the fraud scandal of the American blood testing company Theranos, recently warned that the AI investment boom is creating conditions for the next Theranos-like scam. In an interview with the American media The San Francisco Standard, Schultz said that the true capabilities of AI technology are difficult to evaluate, and it is often difficult for people to distinguish whether a product has unique technology or is just an application interface added to existing models such as ChatGPT. "If you want to scam people, I think this is a great opportunity to do it," he said. Schultz met Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (Elizabeth Holmes) at Stanford University, and later worked for the company and participated in exposing the false advertising of its blood testing technology. Holmes has claimed that Theranos' device can complete a variety of tests using only a small amount of blood. With this vision, she attracted a large amount of investment and once became a highly sought-after entrepreneurial star in Silicon Valley, known as the "female version of Steve Jobs." However, the company's technical promises ultimately failed to materialize, and the fraud scandal was exposed. According to Schultz, the circumstances that allowed Holmes to raise hundreds of millions of dollars without adequate scrutiny are now more common. He believes that AI technology is particularly difficult to verify, and the current world’s emphasis on truth is also diminishing. Schultz's interview also touched on Holmes, who has recently attracted renewed attention from the outside world. After the release of Nathan Fielder's film You Can See Everything, some viewers sympathized with Holmes. Schultz sees it differently. He believed that Holmes was manipulative and concerned about his public image. Schultz said that even though Holmes was still serving her sentence, she was featured on the cover of People magazine and appeared in the high-profile film. He also claimed that Holmes was involved in a new blood testing startup founded by his partner, Billy Evans. "I feel like the only reason we're talking about Elizabeth Holmes now is because she wanted us to talk about her," Schultz said. Regarding the current AI industry, Schultz is worried that technical barriers and investment enthusiasm may once again make it difficult for the outside world to see a company's true capabilities. He doesn’t think Holmes will be the last fraudster Silicon Valley needs to face. via cnBeta.COM - Chinese industry information website (author: Source: Phoenix Technology)