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Screenshot of YouTube video (paused at 1:28) showing a young woman in pigtails, dressed in a yellow top with a wide neckline and blue jeans, sits cross-legged atop a cooler on a rooftop, with other rooftops visible in the distance. She wears a red pendant with a glowing white light at its center and is smiling at a young man opposite her. The man is wearing an open blue button-down shirt and green pants, gazing downwards with a slight smile.
A compilation of selected comments trashing the microphone-enabled pendant follows, reading:
amazing. at 1:28 you can see the guy decide there won’t be any further dates
The creepy music is doing the exact opposite of what you want this ad to do. You want this to be a normal thing that isn’t weird at all and your music says “black mirror”.
The day you call a listening device “Friend” is the day you lose your humanity
Here comes the next MKBHD worst reviewed product 😂
so basically a bluetooth microphone that listens everything that you say, and that sends it to a chatGPT wrapper.
Don’t need this if you’re schizo already 🥰
To be fair, lots of us have wanted to wear a microphone that sends us lowercase text messages pretending to be our very human friend.
The whole commercial I’m like “wtf is this? A product? A movie?” only to find out its the next rabbit or whatever. Fuck that,I’m good. And if you need this to have a friend,yeah,get professional help,and work on yourself,cos you’ve got issues.
It seems perfectly healthy…
for 90-year-old widows on deserted islands.
On a serious note, anybody know what professionals would say if you told them you were using this as an otherwise normal adult? Wonder if they’d try to wean you off. Like parasocial relationships with celebrities, I’ve heard those are no good. But e.g. talking to yourself out loud when you’re alone is apparently OK if there’s no impact on the rest of your life. Just how bad is a
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Dependency/attachment issues come to mind… could diminish your motivation to pursue IRL connections.