[sgt101]

No one should do business, or collaborate academically, with anyone associated with the video or company again. To co-author with anyone involved with this is misconduct, and every University should be aware of that - they are liars, they cannot be trusted to do research. The VC's should retrieve all unspent cash and sue the founders.

They can reflect on what they did looking at the canvas of the inside of their tents in a homeless camp.

[carlbrown]

I disagree. There are no actual lies in the video itself, and I don't think that, for example, the engineer who is narrating the video is responsible for writing the description of the video (which is where the actual lie was).

The person (probably in marketing) that made the false claim is at fault, and any manager involved who did not stop the lie is at fault.

The software developers who are working on Devin's code likely had no control of or idea about how the video was going to be marketed.

There have been many times that I've been part of a team that built a product we were proud of, and had some business or sales person at our company, over our objections, make claims about it to a customer (or potential customer) that the sales person had been told were not true.

[sgt101]

I had an example at work recently where this happened - so I agree with you. You objected, which was right.

I rang the customer and explained the misunderstanding. I discussed the problem with the sales folks and it was agreed that this shouldn't have been said.

I feel ok about it, there was an exaggeration, I corrected it, we moved on.

That's where the difference is. If the developers and the narrator were unaware that these were lies then they should have been aware. If they were aware then they should have objected. I see no evidence that they objected.