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by Twirrim 728 days ago
It's an awful piece of trash. A phone-ish sized device that's sole purpose is to act as an interface to AI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTV12hErTc is a review by Marques Brownlee, covering how bad it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvFc_24vSM Coffezilla goes in to the ways that it's arguably a scam, as well as diving in to some of how it is badly implemented.

On the technical side, it gets worse. For example, it turns out things like their Spotify "integration" is actually interacting with the Spotify web site. It doesn't even use Spotify's APIs. So it breaks any time Spotify modifies their website.
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thih9 727 days ago
Yes; at the same time, it’s a scam only because people didn’t like it. If it got popular, it would have been a successful hustle and a new business model.
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mattashii 727 days ago
Advertising a product with features that it doesn't have remains a scam in my book, no matter the popularity.

See also: Theranos

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thih9 726 days ago
Chatgpt, a product that successfully disrupted the market and inspired a number of other companies, is largely misunderstood and falsely advertised.

A HN submission about chatgpt hallucinating broken links to partner websites has comments like:

> It drives me nuts how OpenAI has misleadingly marketed their products, and the tech community at large has failed to clarify what their products really are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821262

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