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Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They are considering it making it open source, among other options to keep the robots alive

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

Awesome if that ends up happening.

[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org -1 points 2 weeks ago

OpenAI started as open as well. Sadly

[–] astanix@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago

Settle down there, that's not what all the headlines say. How will the pitchforks get used unless the headline is 100% negative?

To be fair, it's bad... I'm not arguing against that.