Hi David,
Watched your video on AI chatbot kids' toys still being an obviously bad idea. You raise the questions we argued about all year while building ours.
I'm [REPREHENSIBLE SHITHEEL], founder of [ABOMINATION THAT SHOULD BE BANNED]. [ABOMINATION]s are AI plush buddies kids can talk to, and we spent the last year trying to make them genuinely fun for kids rather than another hype gadget. There's also a companion app with educational games, talking to your [ABOMINATION] digitally, and tic tac toe on a shared screen on an iPad.
I'd rather hear the honest criticism from someone skeptical than only from fans. If you'd ever want to take a hard look at it, I'm happy to set you up with the app, walk you through how it works, and answer any question on the record. No strings, no script.
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i have a paid youtube channel, so i get multiple of this shit daily. all written with a chatbot too. but this is the worst this week.
@davidgerard This is the problem with scam emails these days. There's no craft to them anymore. Just let an agent troll youtube looking for anyone with "AI" in their tags, then pump out a personalized pitch message to them via an LLM
Back in the day you had to craft a single message that would go out to a pool of millions in the hopes of snagging one well-heeled idiot. Where's the art of the con in this mass-produced sludge?