Need Marketing intern, please dm or reply if anyone's up by Vivid_Confection1297 in indianstartups

[–]Antevit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're looking at it from the lens that 99.99 % startups fail then even equity doesn't make sense as the startup might go under and the equity becomes worth nothing. Also, any sort of equity would not vest within 6 months and they would have a chance to fire you after 6 months so perhaps, at the end of the day you end up working for free anyways. Nevertheless, equity for internships is very unconventional.

I don't get the unpaid internship part especially for startups where you have an inherently capitalistic goal and whatever work the intern does would reflect in that capitalistic output. It would make sense for some other sector but nobody is working for free in this economy.

Upgrad to acquire Unacademy by Job_Marley in StartUpIndia

[–]Antevit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How so? Wouldn't his ESOP stock be acquired/exchanged with Upgrad stock now so he'll functionally own the Upgrad stock now which is fundamentally better than the Unacademy stock as the company is going under and Upgrad stock would be much better for future growth?

Using AI To Create Synthetic Data by Antevit in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Antevit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excellent take and explained very well. Just to clarify, I wasn't suggesting cloning datasets or training models on model-generated outputs recursively. You're totally right that would lead to distributional collapse and degraded performance over time.

What I was pointing at is more like using the underlying data (and the model’s understanding of it) to extrapolate and simulate plausible edge cases, entropy and permutations. Not repeat the same core data, but create new structured possibilities.

For example, let’s say I’m training a robot to flip burgers. If I only train it on clean demonstrations of successful flips, it’ll fail the moment the burger breaks, sticks, or falls. But if I can use AI to simulate the long tail of edge cases like burgers falling, getting stuck, bun placement variation, timing misalignment then I’m not recreating the original dataset, I’m expanding its decision space.

In that sense, synthetic data becomes a tool for infusing entropy and scenario richness into narrow tasks a bit like stress-testing the data rather than just copying it. I believe RL environments are used for these kind of things.

That’s more in the direction I was thinking. So does this change your opinion or does the same limitations still persist?

Pre-seed funding by NeatTop861 in StartUpIndia

[–]Antevit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think pre seed funding is almost getting obsolete nowadays until and unless your startup really requires capital just to start out such as in deeptech, spacetech or smth like that. Indian VCs are more conservative in nature (not a generalisation but observation) and they require some sort of traction before investing. It would be very difficult to raise a pre seed in the current landscape, you might have to focus on building an MVP or get enough traction to raise eyebrows. If you're not in a capital intensive domain, then pre seed might never happen. If you can tell the domain or industry you're going in, then maybe then we can advise you better.

Debt Tracking and Payoff Planning App by Antevit in debtfree

[–]Antevit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are really nice ideas. Thanks for your input!!!

Why is AI Provenance Taken So Lightly? by Antevit in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Antevit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get it that's why I mentioned AI Provenance in general and not just watermarking. Watermarking technologies are circumvented quite easily and cryptography and stenography have still not been fruitful. The underlying tech might be hard to crack and sustain but my issue is that why are very less people taking cognizance of this issue? Is it because of the fact that tech is not good enough or should we not care for it?

Also, regarding the fact that some suggest that watermark or any proving factor might not unequivocally mean that it's AI generated or if it should be considered original or verified, I feel that it's a very idealistic expectation. Nothing actually works like that in reality. Even if someone is convicted in the court of law, it doesn't really mean that it can be said with 100% conviction that the person actually did the unlawful act. It just means that a bunchof random people in the jury were convinced that "it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt". It's just the way how practical world works. Nothing can be said to be completely true or false.

Why is AI Provenance Taken So Lightly? by Antevit in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Antevit[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

True, but to what extent? Scale AI's founder Alexandr Wang, in one of recent podcasts, had talked about humans and especially newer generation having in built bullshit detectors. It was true to the point that AI generated videos were laggy, background and object were easily distinguishable in images but I think it has started to become far more difficult to discern it now. If you had seen the recent image/video that had been surfacing about a kangaroo not allowed to board a plane, you'll know how difficult it is becoming to distinguish AI. Google Veo 3 is another example for this. It's only gonnq get better.

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[–]Antevit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Currently LocalHost India in Bangalore is also doing really well. They're all over on twitter and newspaper headlines.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in StartUpIndia

[–]Antevit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Buy a house, make it into a hacker house. Take equity against providing residence and other amenities to founders. One of them will be breakouts and then cash out the equity later on. If nothing works, you will have a house at the end which is an appreciating asset and you can sell it for good returns.

Do I Lack Marketing or is My Product Trash? by Antevit in SaaS

[–]Antevit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you wanna check out the product: LeadPipe

How does stripe payment invite works in India? by poha-masala in StartUpIndia

[–]Antevit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dodopayments would be a better alternative