👀👀 friend.com 👀👀
https://pomf2.lain.la/f/rvfn7ij6.mp4
'Friend is not a way to get more done or augment or enhance anything. It’s, well, a friend — an AI friend that can go with you anywhere, experience things with you, and just be there with you all the time. “It’s very supportive, very validating, it’ll encourage your ideas,” Schiffmann says. “It’s also super intelligent, it’s a great brainstorming buddy. You can talk to it about relationships, things like that.”'
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/30/24207029/friend-ai-companion-gadget
This thing is definitely going to snitch on you in court
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avi is a grifter imo. he got famous from a covid tracking website in 2020- it was popular because of this mapping feature that was taken from volunteer researchers without credit.
he rode that wave to make a name for himself, and rolled that into raising for a hardware ai start-up which again imo is copying https://github.com/BasedHardware my bet is that it turns out as badly as the other AI wearables and then he moves onto the next thing.
Interesting, never heard of him. The whole thing does seem like a perfectly executed gimmick to get into tech press and shared as clickbait by the likes of me lol
i might be wrong and it turns out decent- he’s got a pretty good rep in the silicon valley scene, but i think he’s sus
This is the project with 2.5m in funding that spent 1.9m on the domain name.
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