• TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    The company’s collar has a speaker on it; talk to your pet (or, really, talk to the collar) and you’ll hear a prerecorded human voice responding to you, creating the illusion that your pet has a humanlike personality and the ability to speak English.

    This is one of the dumbest pet things I’ve ever heard of. This entire “article” is just an advertisement for one guys shitty startup.

    Jeffw, bad boy. Bad!

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      8 hours ago

      At first I assumed it was some attempt at an animal translator, then I understood it as a chatbot you use to personify your pet. If you need a robot to tell you to feed your dog, you should not have a dog because the dog already tells you it is hungry.

      The only people who will love this product enough to buy it for themself and keep paying for the subscription are people who don’t think their pet has a personality or one of value and they would be better off with a debilitating head trauma.

      The idea of my dog having the voice of a mad scientist that likes pediatric cancer is funny, but dear Lord that product is shite.

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      7 hours ago

      It’s not like the article is a ringing endorsement of the product. I thought the best parts were where it pointed out how bad and overly priced it is

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      8 hours ago

      Where are my testicles, Summer? They were removed, where have they gone?

      The most serious question anyone has ever been asked.

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    8 hours ago

    Yes, strap a chatbot to the most expressive and communicative animals humans interact with daily. That makes sense.

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    7 hours ago

    I wonder how AI bro come up with this idea.

    The collar is chatgpt api user. It doesn’t understand your per. It doesn’t translate language whatsoever.