[madeofpalk]

To be fair, we've always had startups pretending they have "AI" or "machine learning" but it was just mechanical turk or someone on upwork.

[icoder]

That's true. And the term mechanical turk by itself refers to an even (much) older 'fake' AI!

[djbusby]

Ten Finger Automation or Wizard of Oz are the terms my entrepreneur/investor group uses.

[rgbrgb]

pg used "man behind the curtain" (riff on Oz) for our real estate startup :)