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AI “Friend” pendant ads in the New York City subway have sparked a backlash about false companionship and threats to human ...
Late this past summer, Friend paid $1 million to plaster more than 10,000 white posters throughout the New York City subway ...
New Yorkers are defacing ads for Friend, an AI companion startup. The campaign cost the company over $1 million.
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AI Will Never Be Your Friend

The Friend necklace promises constant companionship and understanding. But this isn’t friendship—it’s a soulless, cynical way to prey on our loneliness and fear.
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo used artificial intelligence (AI) to depict himself driving the subway, working as a stagehand and standing on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange ...
Last month, AI startup Friend launched an eyebrow-raising advertising campaign in the New York City subway, which drew a striking amount of hatred. The largely white billboards left a convenient ...
The annual pop-up sale of retired signs and other transit artifacts from the New York City subway system attracted a line of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Ka’Von Wooden loved trains. The 15-year-old had an encyclopedic knowledge of New York City’s subway system and dreamed of becoming a train operator. Instead, on a December morning in ...