The AI Scam India Isn't Talking About India's Biggest AI Lie From Bengaluru startup pitches to government "Digital India AI" schemes — the industry is selling automation and delivering a glorified autocomplete. Here's how the scam works. Walk into any startup event in Bengaluru, Mumbai, or Hyderabad right now. Within ten minutes, someone will tell you their AI product will "eliminate manual work," "replace repetitive tasks," or "free up your team." The slide will show a graph going up. The demo will be smooth. The founder will be confident. And most of it is, to put it plainly, jhooth. Not outright lying — that would be too easy to call out. It's more sophisticated than that. It's the art of letting you believe one thing while selling you something else entirely. And India, with its massive IT workforce, its lakhs of BPO employees, its government digitisation push, and its desperate hunger t...
