The brief flurry of AI-powered wearables like the Humane AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 doesn’t seem to have caught on the way their creators hoped, but one seems to be banking on the idea that what we really want from an AI companion is non-stop drama and traumatic backstories. Friend, whose pendant hardware isn’t even out yet, has debuted a web platform on Friend.com to allow people to talk to random examples of AI characters. The thing is,
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