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Comment on I Hate My Friend: The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.

MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

If I wanted to READ ai “snark”, I would spend more time on facebook, or go back to reddit. How hard could it be to slap a batter and 4G/5G modem on a google home or alexa? Eiter of which would be easier to run on a phone or tablet, whic also includes speakers.

How do these morons that can’t match the convenience of existing privacy nightmares, or even DIY stuff, continue to get VC funding?

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jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They get VC funding, like this:

Schiffmann posits himself as older now, wiser, more experienced than he was when he first debuted the Friend necklace. (He is 22.) He has grown out his hair and cultivated a beard

A wise 22 year old with a beard… 😮‍💨

The VCs are clueless, they jump on a bunch of “feels good” and “disruptive young blood” stuff, hoping that maybe 1 in 10 will not fall and burn.

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- MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oh, I’m fully aware. It just boggles the mind how the same tired outlook has endured for decades now.
  
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  - jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Appearances, preconceptions, stereotypes… are shortcuts used to deal with complex issues. Since VCs don’t really care about 90% of the startups, they only need to weed out the worst ideas, in the quickest way possible.
    
    Story time: When I was 20, I had some job interviews lined up, so a family friend helped me pick a decent looking suit and robe that weren’t too expensive. Got offered 3 different jobs in a single week 🤷
    
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