Friend AI fails to make friends (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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

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[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days 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.systems 4 points 3 days 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)

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

🎶 Butt hole sun, won't you come

🎶 And wash the pain away

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