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   Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 17:19:41 JST Kim Scheinberg

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   I looked at the website and I'm torn between how heartbreaking it is for those kids and how fucking dystopian it is.

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     Nathalie Van Raemdonck (eilah_tan@aoir.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 17:19:42 JST Nathalie Van Raemdonck

     So this AI company Moxie marketed its robot friend to children with learning disabilities and difficulties to develop social skills. It just announced it's going out of business and the robot will stop functioning as it primarily works on cloud services. So many special needs children will lose their first ever friend...
     I can only hope parents will manage to jailbreak it and keep it going like in Ted Chiang's "the lifecycle of software objects" short story, but what an awful vendor lock-in 😢