Bhavish Aggarwal, the founder of ride-hailing platform Ola, criticized LinkedIn after the platform removed his post on "pronoun illness". According to Aggarwal, LinkedIn's Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool was imposing a political ideology on Indian users, which he believes is unsafe and sinister. He expressed his concerns about the AI tool's actions in a post on another platform.
"Dear @LinkedIn this post of mine was about YOUR AI imposing a political ideology on Indian users that’s unsafe, sinister," the founder wrote.
"Rich of you to call my post unsafe! This is exactly why we need to build our own tech and AI in India. Else we’ll just be pawns in others political objectives," he added.
Earlier this week, Aggarwal took to X to share his thoughts on gender pronouns. He had asked the AI bot on LinkedIn about him and had shared a screenshot of the bot's response. In the response, the bot had used "they" and "their" to address the founder.
Since being shared, his post garnered over 165K views. Many users also commented while agreeing with his thoughts.
"Completely agree on this. This is pure play woke agenda at play," a user wrote.
"Salute to you Bhavesh for voicing out an uncomfortable but ugly truth about woke foreign influence. We stand with you," another user said.
One more user mentioned, "That is right. Thanks for exposing. It is true with other platforms also. The problem is that they do not understand the culture and sentiments of India and want to condition everything with one narrow lens".
Meanwhile, according to reports, Ola Cabs has been going through a tough time as its CEO, Hemant Bakshi, has recently resigned from his position after only four months of service. Additionally, the company is expected to undergo a team restructuring process that will affect at least 10% of its workforce.
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Inputs from IANS
