{"id":301231,"date":"2025-04-27T06:48:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=301231"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:47:28","slug":"theyve-created-an-ai-to-lie-in-job-interviews-yes-you-read-that-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/theyve-created-an-ai-to-lie-in-job-interviews-yes-you-read-that-right\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019ve created an AI to lie in job interviews. Yes, you read that right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the ever-expanding world of artificial intelligence, a controversial new tool is making headlines.&nbsp;<strong>Cluely, a voice-activated AI assistant, claims to help users cheat their way through life<\/strong>\u2014from job interviews to romantic dates. Created by 21-year-old Roy Lee, the app has sparked intense debate over the ethics and legality of AI in real-time social interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An invisible whisperer for real-life situations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cluely markets itself as a hands-free AI coach that listens to your conversations<\/strong>&nbsp;and offers real-time suggestions through a discreet earpiece. Imagine a ChatGPT that watches and listens with you\u2014then helps you lie your way into a job or charm a date. That\u2019s exactly what its promotional video shows: Lee using the AI to invent stories and manipulate a conversation, even pretending to be older to impress a woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The promise, the contradiction, and the risk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the app&#8217;s bold messaging\u2014<strong>\u201ccheat at everything\u201d is part of its tagline<\/strong>\u2014its own legal terms prohibit use during exams, interviews, or without consent in recorded conversations. This contradiction hasn\u2019t stopped Lee from embracing a &#8220;move fast and break things&#8221; mentality, proudly advertising how Cluely helps users deceive others for personal gain. Yet, ironically, if you follow their marketing advice, you might break a law\u2014or at least, a few social norms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The future of AI: useful or dangerous?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee envisions Cluely as smart glasses or even a brain implant in the future.&nbsp;<strong>But even as a desktop app, it raises serious questions about AI\u2019s role in human communication<\/strong>. Is it a helpful assistant, or a dangerous tool that encourages deception?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ever-expanding world of artificial intelligence, a controversial new tool is making headlines.&nbsp;Cluely, a voice-activated AI assistant, claims to help users cheat their way through life\u2014from job interviews to romantic dates. Created by 21-year-old Roy Lee, the app has sparked intense debate over the ethics and legality of AI in real-time social interactions. An &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/theyve-created-an-ai-to-lie-in-job-interviews-yes-you-read-that-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They\u2019ve created an AI to lie in job interviews. Yes, you read that right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":301232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-301231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307511,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301231\/revisions\/307511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301231"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=301231"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=301231"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=301231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}