Friend is an “AI” gadget. Specifically, it’s an overpriced Bluetooth microphone that hangs around your neck and  listens to all your conversations. It then sends your conversations to Anthropic Cla…
  • noughtnaut@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    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”.

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      1·
      6 minutes ago

      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)