I outsourced my memory to an AI pin and all I got was fanfiction
Never have I ever been this gaslit by a wearable.
I outsourced my memory to an AI pin
This part is enough to ensure things are gonna get dystopian real quick. Spoiler: they do, and the thing also fails a lot.
I compared Bee’s version of my day with my diary entry. I wrote about trying Paddington Bear-themed marmalade sandwiches in our office kitchen. (Not a fan. I did, however, note that the strawberry-flavored shortbread cookie was excellent.) I wrote several paragraphs about a sensitive text conversation I had with a friend. Bee never picked up these moments because memorable things aren’t always spoken aloud. It made me wonder: in a hypothetical future where everyone has a Bee, do unspoken memories simply not exist?
I liked reading this part because I had not considered that consumers of these products would have an expectation of their device to document their thoughts.
It makes sense though, doesn't it? I imagine someone going in knowing it's machine learning doesn't have too many false assumptions, but they are being programmed in a way to mimic humans. The voice recognition part has come an incredible long way and I would not be surprised that this makes the uninitiated expect more of the language model than actually is there.
In this era of atomic isolation, even I wanted to believe it's true. Having an algorithm that remembers my name through reboots would deepen the sense that there is a pretty developed entity helping me. Luckily I skimp on the premium versions.
Why do people do this shit to themselves?
I swear if the Borg came down some people would be lining up to join the club.
I'd join the Borg in an instant.
If it wasn't for the whole forcing people thing, they probably would.
Their tech is much better, and you get as close to immortality as you can get, since your body is maintained by their tech, and your mind gets added to the hivemind.
Short of death, you'd never have a medical problem again.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
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They are tech writers, that's their job
my private fan theory is that the Borg are actually the good guys but we only ever hear the gReAt fEdErAtIoN's POV
If it actually worked, it would be really useful for a lot of people (it's me. I'm a lot of people)
Journalists? Probably just to see how it will go wrong and report about it so we don‘t have to.
So it listens to you and you can “permit it” to read emails and all that shit? I didn’t even know this kind of thing existed let alone that anyone would CHOOSE to allow this. Crazy.
I find it stupid yet somehow helpful.
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It records everything you say, it also takes your time after to read the scripts, which could can be helpful at some point.
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It's a no from me.
I think the Borg would take one look at me and declare me a total loss.
ewwww, a paywall.
other people have made good suggestions as well but I use Bypass Paywalls Clean as a Firefox add-on and it works great
Journalists need to be paid. Ad revenue is in freefall, and it never really supported long form content that doesn't endorse a product. If you want real news, it has to be paid for somehow.
You need to learn to jump over the wall https://archive.is/2025.03.12-190857/https://www.theverge.com/reviews/627056/bee-review-ai-wearable
A Firefox fork like IronFox with an aggressive adblocker setup like uBlock Origin in medium mode blocks paywalls and all kinds of annoying popups on most sites. Takes a bit of tweaking to not break some sites, but after that it's amazing.
I like how they put in italics “it listens to all your conversations” and yet it’s still third in the list. Reminds me of how most mass media approach mass surveillance!
Unlike the Rabbit R1 or the Humane AI Pin
And they describe the exact same crap.