{"id":916400,"date":"2025-03-24T06:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T00:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=916400"},"modified":"2025-03-24T06:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T00:49:08","slug":"investors-sound-alarm-on-startup-ai-washing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/24\/investors-sound-alarm-on-startup-ai-washing\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors sound alarm on startup \u2018AI washing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy\u2019s recent concerns over the growing hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), wherein many systems being marketed as AI are merely traditional programming, resonate strongly with the venture capitalist community. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think somehow it has become a fashion in India to talk of AI for everything. I have seen several normal, ordinary programmes touted as AI,\u201d Murthy remarked at a recent conference in Mumbai. Agreeing with Murthy, several VC firms told FE that they are increasingly encountering \u201cAI washing\u201d \u2014 a practice wherein startups inflate their AI credentials to attract funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy\u2019s recent concerns over the growing hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), wherein many systems being marketed as AI are merely traditional programming, resonate strongly with the venture capitalist community. \u201cI think somehow it has become a fashion in India to talk of AI for everything. I have seen several normal, ordinary programmes touted as AI,\u201d Murthy remarked at a recent conference in Mumbai. Agreeing with Murthy, several VC firms told FE that they are increasingly encountering \u201cAI washing\u201d \u2014 a practice wherein startups inflate their AI credentials to attract funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}