YC-backed company accused of using AI to invent a feature that doesn't exist
menhguin · x · 2026-10-24
A user shared a bizarre dispute with a YC-backed company (reportedly funded $6 million) over a feature advertised in its blog that he suspects never existed.
- Support emails are AI-generated even after he asked for a human; the whole site appears AI-generated, and the API docs tell readers not to bother reading them—just paste an "integration prompt" into their AI.
- The founder posted an AI-generated article claiming AI runs the company.
- He believes the company's AI hallucinated the feature and wrote dozens of promotional articles for unsupported countries.
- When he asked the company's AI assistant to enable the feature, it said it doesn't exist; after he pointed to the blog post announcing it, the assistant started replying in Chinese.
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