A lot of people have been talking about "friend.com" because they spent a ton of money on ads in every major city.
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Ok what if they did a rebrand and made a "chastity friend"
"The Christian AI that keeps you following Jesus."
Might make more headway with that one?
Mike Johnson was bragging about the anti-porn app he and his son had to use together for some reason...
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How about "Ponzi Friend"
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How about "Ponzi Friend"
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Ok what if they did a rebrand and made a "chastity friend"
"The Christian AI that keeps you following Jesus."
Might make more headway with that one?
Mike Johnson was bragging about the anti-porn app he and his son had to use together for some reason...
@futurebird @quinn A pair of talking underpants could also catch on as an ironic metaphore.
I mean, that's two verticals covered right?
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@futurebird @quinn A pair of talking underpants could also catch on as an ironic metaphore.
I mean, that's two verticals covered right?
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"The Lord is my shepherd". What's that make me?
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People would be less lonely if social media were more full of the real people they know and wanted to follow and less full of promoted posts and advertising.
Social media can be a part of a healthy social life. But I think many of the most popular aps have gotten so cluttered and detached from doing that they are making things worse.
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lonely sharks: they just want to be your friend. They won't fall on you and kill you, like a vending machine or a ... -
@futurebird @llewelly @quinn All the lonely Chondrichthyes, where do they all come from?
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@futurebird @llewelly @quinn *Yes*
Much better than the
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A lot of people have been talking about "friend.com" because they spent a ton of money on ads in every major city.
The ads are targeting young, early adopter, urban, tech-savy people with modest disposable income.
So me, basically.
And what do they think I want? It's so insulting, LOL. A "friend."
It's an AI assistant device. Makes no sense.
Delighted that these ads are being aggressively defaced. I guess they did "start a buzz" probably not the one they wanted.
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@futurebird It’s really ironic that when I went to the website, the first thing I hit was a Captcha “to prove you’re human”.
If AI is so great why don't you sell your big new product to THEM? Hmm?
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@futurebird @llewelly @quinn *Yes*
Much better than the
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@michaelgemar @Moss @llewelly @quinn
this is making me feel things
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The 22-year-old AI CEO behind Friend.com necklace welcomes graffiti on his $1 million ad campaign: ‘Capitalism is the greatest artistic medium’ | Fortune
”The audience completes the work,” Avi Schiffmann, creator of the AI wearable, told Fortune. “I purchased the zeitgeist.”
Fortune (fortune.com)
The CEO claims he expected the ads to be defaced. I do not believe this.
**What would you think of someone who had this device on? **
This is supposed to be the trendy new thing to wear. Like a smart watch. But nobody will want to be caught dead with one. (even if they liked the product, which isn't even done yet and sounds awful even if it worked perfectly.)
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@futurebird This is like the fourth or fifth consumer-targeted AI appliance. The fact that I can’t come up with the actual names of the others tells me how successful this idea has been so far.
people are so mad LOL... and the people making this are saying "no no no this is a good thing... we are having an impact."
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If AI is so great why don't you sell your big new product to THEM? Hmm?
I was being kind of absurd with this comment but thinking about it more I think there is a real point buried here.
As in: interacting with people matters? even if you only want to sell things. But even more if you need "a friend"
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Make me a magic phone that has no ads on it. That is the product I want. I don't need to install ad blockers and keep updating them. It just makes every single ad go away.
I would pay for that. That would be the "mental health tech" that I would go for.
Easy right?
LMAO
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My phone has no ads, no spyware, no malware.Yes I know, you're not talking about my kind of phone, you want smartphone apps without ads/spyware, but that's what apps *are*. That's what smartphones *are*.
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The 22-year-old AI CEO behind Friend.com necklace welcomes graffiti on his $1 million ad campaign: ‘Capitalism is the greatest artistic medium’ | Fortune
”The audience completes the work,” Avi Schiffmann, creator of the AI wearable, told Fortune. “I purchased the zeitgeist.”
Fortune (fortune.com)
The CEO claims he expected the ads to be defaced. I do not believe this.
**What would you think of someone who had this device on? **
This is supposed to be the trendy new thing to wear. Like a smart watch. But nobody will want to be caught dead with one. (even if they liked the product, which isn't even done yet and sounds awful even if it worked perfectly.)
@futurebird Wow, that is some very thoughtful and civic-minded graffiti. Is that because there are more people to push back in a big city, or is it because, in a big city, it makes sense to buy pedestrian-accessible ad signs like this?
Anyway I applaud the chutzpah.
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My phone has no ads, no spyware, no malware.Yes I know, you're not talking about my kind of phone, you want smartphone apps without ads/spyware, but that's what apps *are*. That's what smartphones *are*.
To be fair my phone has no ads, but it's not "magic" it's a lot of work and I'm not always into doing it.
