4d ago

Friend AI fails to make friends

and everyone hates it on sight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP1eg4XoM48&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250929-friend-ai-fails-to-make-friends - podcast

time: 6 min 07 sec

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He got up at 5:30 a.m. to show the sunrise to his microphone. Yeah, that’s not worrying.
So very unsurprising. That's straight up out of the film Her which is about how an electronic companion can (will) affect and screw over their "friend".
- He got up at 5:30 a.m. to show the sunrise to his microphone
  No doubt inspired by my favourite holistic wellness woo/Soundgarden song, butthole sun(ning)
  
  🎶 Butt hole sun, won't you come
  🎶 And wash the pain away
I want those stickers
Not even friend shaped. ;_;
crazy how techbros understand consent (to be recorded all the time) only when it impacts them personally (i assume that was the main problem)
The YouTube ad looks like a trailer for a science fiction show about alienated humans who only have their chatbot to talk to.
Gosh, I thought this might be an overstatement, but if anything it's an understatement! What were they thinking? The way the camera frames the gadget is downright ominous! I expected that any moment the music would change and become foreboding as we get hints about the dark secret behind it all, then quick cuts and obligatory trailer horn sounds, finally announcing a summer 2026 release date in any cinema near you.
Schiffman called Tab a “wearable mom.”
A what??
“wearable mom.”
Jfc.
Bought url for 1.8m
Which VCs gave him money? And how many pension funds etc end up holding the bag for this?
Well done to Avi on blowing a pile of venture capital cash to make his own life feel a bit better. The rest of us will probably pass this one by.
Money buys happiness, but he sure ain't doing that right.

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