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@naturesforce4299
January 25, 2025 at 11:41 pm
Make ai go away again!;)
@jumanpatowary4486
January 26, 2025 at 12:03 am
A machine, becoming a companion species! Whats wrong with a dog?
@25Wineman
January 26, 2025 at 11:31 am
Or cat for that matter
@teresaamanfu7408
January 26, 2025 at 12:21 am
Nooooo!
@Tatahisthename
January 26, 2025 at 12:25 am
No.
@peterlake2184
January 26, 2025 at 12:47 am
????
@nannybannany
January 26, 2025 at 12:49 am
Skynet is a little too possible now…
@pweetypoo
January 26, 2025 at 2:05 am
Pop them… Then what bin do they go into?
@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism
January 26, 2025 at 2:23 am
So much time an money into this, while people are homeless and going hungry and world wide wars.
@lika_s
January 26, 2025 at 10:33 am
++++
@ccgg3913
January 26, 2025 at 2:33 am
You smoked weed a bit too much for too long
@drakewald123
January 26, 2025 at 4:52 pm
No, this is permanent hallucination kind of stuff. Shrooms.
@kmacintosh1448
January 26, 2025 at 3:23 am
Can we not just solve hatred world hunger and homelessness?? So sick of this tech sector bullshit
@madhatter113
January 26, 2025 at 4:12 am
Hatred is hard because it’s a feeling embedded in our code. Homelessness and world hunger are personal not collective or global problems. Poorness does not impose itself on anyone. Poor people choose to be poor and remain poor.
@vultureculture7707
January 26, 2025 at 4:21 am
No thanks. We dont need fake creatures with fake “curiosity” when we have children working in factories. Fix civilization before building AI nonsense.
@superiorSam9718
January 26, 2025 at 4:37 am
Flying contraceptives ????
@puntrikayuktasevi9550
January 26, 2025 at 5:15 am
I’d rather have a rescued pet than those unfriendly-looking balloons
@lika_s
January 26, 2025 at 10:33 am
yeah that’s true
@JeanJamin
January 26, 2025 at 7:00 am
Fascinating …
@mimosa27
January 26, 2025 at 7:02 am
I like her
@ilaphroaig
January 26, 2025 at 7:46 am
Seen this before. Stolen idea.
@peterweller8583
January 26, 2025 at 8:36 am
To be useless and in the way?
@KomodoSoup
January 26, 2025 at 9:09 am
Did she say something about “one drop of blood is enough“?
I know, she may not have said it
But I felt a sense of déjà vu about her
@muzzybeat
January 26, 2025 at 3:15 pm
What’s the reference, mate?
@KomodoSoup
January 26, 2025 at 10:22 pm
@ Elizabeth Holmes
@momtube2888
January 26, 2025 at 10:20 am
This is what happens when you have too much money and no real problems to solve
@lindam9618
January 26, 2025 at 11:15 am
This is exactly what Stephen Hawking warned us about…the beginning of the extinction of human beings.
@Tremori_A
January 26, 2025 at 1:15 pm
This is just Festo tech, with a different balloon shape, this is nearly 10 year old tech.
@tvuser9529
January 26, 2025 at 2:56 pm
Pretty! They look alien but elegantly so, like jellyfish and squid.
@thelordcomanderwhocriedwolf
January 26, 2025 at 4:38 pm
♥️
@ashleyburnett7811
January 26, 2025 at 5:21 pm
So.. is this what is over New jersey??
@yiaftokal5932
January 26, 2025 at 5:23 pm
For what purpose, exactly?
This is extremely redundant and, quite honestly, terrifying
@scubaseppy
January 26, 2025 at 11:31 pm
AI isn’t the problem is the corporations controlling the AI.
@LawIV
January 26, 2025 at 11:56 pm
Nope nope nope
@JoeA1974
January 27, 2025 at 1:38 am
When they can replicate each other then they will exist in a pseudo life
@jonniestahl772
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 pm
Until they showed her I thought it was an auto voice.