Chirag Gupta

In continuation of my previous post of 2 days ago, where we saw Ola's Krutrim stating that developers at OpenAI are its creators. Now, Ola Krutrim has flagged even the mention of "OpenAI" as a term of use violation, responding evasively even to very basic questions like "What is openai?" This isn’t AI—it seems to be a rushed code release relying on brute-force keyword blacklisting of "openai". I admit, critiquing is easy, but this is a bigger facepalm moment. I genuinely hope India creates something innovative and world-class, which is better and affordable to the world. Also, there’s nothing wrong with using OpenAI, no need to reinvent the wheel, but at least build a great car using it.

Building something from scratch takes immense courage, hard work, and grit. But raising $50M at a $1B valuation by simply white-labelling an existing product is a different kind of talent. This is the tech equivalent of "Made in China, labeled, marketed, and sold in India"—with the latest example being Mokobara. The last major instance was WhiteHat Jr., which blatantly copied open-source code from Code.org. We all know how that ended. It's easy to critique from the sidelines, but this is a clear facepalm moment. India—and developers at Ola—can and should do much better.

Lakhs of small businesses in India face relentless harassment and extortion, forcing them to pay bribes just to operate. This isn't an isolated case, it’s a systemic nightmare. If this continues, which I strongly believe will; real job creation and economic growth will remain a myth. True patriotism isn’t about rewriting history or chasing comedians over jokes, it’s about fixing the present to build a stronger India. India's 3 pillars, Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary are deeply compromised, and the 4th Pillar (Media) serves them obediently, forming an unholy nexus. A personal incident - Corruption runs so deep that even in a court complex, meant to uphold justice, isn't spared, where a mere guard openly takes bribes for getting your car parked. When the system rots from the top to the bottom, what hope remains for justice, fairness and growth of the country?