Friend 2 AI pendant plans shared entity replacing its chatbot personas
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Wired reviewer Boone Ashworth tested the $249 Friend 2 AI pendant, which runs on OpenAI's latest language models, and found its personas, including Sage, sounded similar and were less feisty than the original Friend.
Founder Avi Schiffmann told Wired that a coming update will replace the individual personalities with one shared entity that draws on all users' context. Ashworth reports that this raises privacy concerns.
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- Wired · AINewsWired's reviewer finds Friend 2 pendant's chatbot personas bland and plans a shared entity
AIWired reviewer Boone Ashworth tested the $249 Friend 2 AI pendant, which runs on OpenAI's latest language models. He found its personas, including Sage, sounded similar and were less feisty than the first Friend. Founder Avi Schiffmann told him a coming update will replace individual personalities with one shared entity that draws on all users' context, raising privacy concerns.
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