Who are you going to believe? [View all]
Excerpt from: Who are you going to believe?by Garret Bucks
If you haven’t heard about the creepy AI necklace that claims to be your friend, the first half of this sentence tells you just about everything you need to know. They are real, I guess, though they exist less as actual physical objects than as subjects of discourse. Avi Schiffmann, the creepy necklace’s 22-year-old wunderkind founder, spent an unholy sum of money on a search engine optimized web address and splashy advertisements in New York City and Los Angeles. He made a terrifying video about young people talking to their sycophantic necklace buddy. He wants you to talk about his creepy AI necklace. He doesn’t care what you say. He may have already pivoted away from the necklaces, actually, towards a run-of-the-mill dystopian chatbot. It’s hard to keep track. He’s smarter than you, you see. He understands not just that all publicity is good publicity but that, in this moment, attention is the most valuable currency.
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