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Dots: Always-on agents

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  1. jason_zig · · focus · HN ↗
    i feel like when they style them all cute like that (see muse) it means they're problematic and invasive.
    1. SwabbyNat74 · · focus · HN ↗
      Does no one remember the MS Paperclip?!?
      1. zdragnar · · focus · HN ↗
        Or how much paperclip was abhorred?
        1. Marha01 · · focus · HN ↗
          That's because it was pretty much a useless gimmick. If it was a capable AI assistant like Astra, it woudn't have been abhorred.
      2. IAmBroom · · focus · HN ↗
        I feel like this should be memed as something like the "Jar-Jar Binks Marketing Flop": intentionally design something to be childishly adorable and inoffensive, which ironically makes it loathsome and offensive to adult customers.
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