Columbia Suspends CS Student for Building 'Cluely' — an AI That Helps You Cheat on Literally Everything. He Raises $20M the Next Week.
In April 2025, 21-year-old Columbia CS student Chungin 'Roy' Lee was suspended for using an AI tool he built to cheat in a technical interview with Amazon. Instead of apologizing, he posted the recording on X, launched the tool publicly as 'Cluely' with the tagline 'cheat on everything', and raised $5.3M in seed funding within days — later topping $20M. The landing page shows a guy using it to lie to his date at dinner. The company's stated mission: 'make honesty obsolete'.
In April 2025, 21-year-old Columbia CS student Chungin 'Roy' Lee was suspended for using an AI tool he built to cheat in a technical interview with Amazon. Instead of apologizing, he posted the recording on X, launched the tool publicly as 'Cluely' with the tagline 'cheat on everything', and raised $5.3M in seed funding within days — later topping $20M. The landing page shows a guy using it to lie to his date at dinner. The company's stated mission: 'make honesty obsolete'.
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9/10 — Deeply unhinged
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