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Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ilmagico 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

OpenAI started as open as well. Sadly

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Awesome if that ends up happening.

[–] astanix -2 points 18 hours 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.