Apple's $3500 Nightmare

[@drewisgooden]

wow. I can’t believe this is how I find out you were looking at pictures of dolphins instead of listening to me talk. consider this our final picnic together 😡

[@ek0dev]

Ugh he's so toxic, you need better friends 😔

[@stucq]

#NotMyEddy

[@Konitama]

What about if he uses the Apple Vision Pro to watch your KZbin channel while you picnic together

[@TheLongLoaf]

Thats crazy

[@jotade2098]

he'll get an AI version of you. consider your presence obsolete.

[@Hammerlord31]

The most horrific thing I saw in this was the barrage of advertisements. If I had multiple active windows spamming me with noisy ads, I'd lose it.

[@Fnanaanf]

It’s like Idiocracy

[@thelexicon7294]

“Here are all the ads you spent 4k to watch!” The future is here.

[@remqb]

They did it so much with websites opening tons of popups that browsers had to put restriction on opening them and disabling auto play on videos. We really don't want that to come back

[@jdog345]

Remember when that was a joke in Ready Player One? Good times.

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

@@jdog345Remember in Futurama when they went into the internet and they had to physically fight the ads? Yeah that’s our future. That and getting a Neuralink implant that feeds us ads in our dreams.

[@kapsican]

that ai girlfriend ad was genuinely horrifying. "human connection is hard, so let's get rid of it completely and forever stay in a digital, fictional world that is so much better than real life, so you never have to go back" that's enough internet for today

[@funkymonks8333]

I wonder of those people ever think about the fact that they're going to die one day

[@JohnSmith-qz6xb]

@@funkymonks8333what type of question is that it’s like asking someone if they realize they need to breath

[@evanfinke6265]

The fact that people made them scares me. Something-something capitalism

[@humbertoestrada140]

I’m surprised no one is talking about how the movie “her” is all about this, predictive programming at it’s finest.

[@muziciscool]

ready player one is really making a lot pf sense today

[@tentativegazer]

During that whole AI segment i couldn't stop picturing it as the "you look lonely" scene from blade runner, it fits so perfectly

[@Merthalophor]

or the movie Her

[@Blind_Hawk]

All these cyberpunk movies weren't entertainment... they were a warning...

[@D9fjg]

@@Blind_Hawk almost every story that takes place in a dystopian world is, really

[@NocturnalTyphlosion]

"remember me from the womb?" is a great way to greet a twin

[@travelcrunch]

Imma use that!! 😂

[@boogiehasfun]

okay will use

[@___K7]

This part actually made me choke 😂

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

But only if they’re a mo-mo twin and not a di-di twin meaning you shared the same placenta and the same amniotic sack.

[@ar6543]

@@therealspeedwagon1451It works for both, either way it’s the same womb

[@meatchuckg]

I appreciated the range of vehicles represented in the "costs as much as a used car" joke.

[@picvegita]

Same, when I saw the Altima I thought "you'll be needing a new transmission with that" Mitsubishi it's older but should last a while.

[@Alfred-Neuman]

Sometime I really don't understand Apple... I think they missed an incredible opportunity there because they could've sell this thing for at least 10,000$ Easily!!

[@danielbrown001]

@@Alfred-NeumanI feel like 90% of the people who bought it at the $3500 price point would have bought it at the $10k price point because if you have $3500 to drop on some new novelty tech for status, there’s a 90% chance you have $10k to do the same. Big profit loss for Apple there.

[@kyx5631]

@@danielbrown001 Agree. It's a completely made-up price with no equivalent, calculable value. Just make up any price and your target audience will buy. For bonus points, put the rsp at 10k, then run a 25 % discount for most of the year to make it look like a deal.

[@panickedshears]

My 2003 Honda civic cost a little over half of the cost of the headset at $2,250USD. It’s still kicking to this day with 250k miles. Needs a new radiator, but you’ll get another 50k miles out of ‘em before the engine goes. That thing was so much more useful to me than… a VR headset computer.

[@WHTVRWHTVR]

The AI women ad is hilariously evil. There’s no way someone wrote the line “imagine unlimited affection” without laughing like a supervillain

[@professorwizard8916]

literally just saw this comment as the scene happened. its like it knows! ITS BECOMING AWARE

[@Kingbimmy]

Honestly. Has to be some sick psycho like “let me make them think this fucking robot will love them when it literally can’t. Mwahahahaha!” 💀

[@EllaNonimato]

they were uncanny

[@Herosoyyo2]

I almost fell out of my chair laughing when it said "Have fun deciding whether to shave or keep your mustache." It's like a nightmare girlfriend from hell.

[@steph15036]

literally! it honestly made me really fucking sad, so obviously and unashamedly trying to take advantage of lonely people desperate for love and connection is so fucking bleak and dystopian

[@GK-dc2oe]

I love how everything the AI says is noncommittal and returns the question back to the user every time. Because it doesn't KNOW anything, it can't, it just spits out an expected answer.

[@Umurhan999]

This really does become obvious when AI is asked subjective or at least somewhat opinion based questions. The answers are total non-answers that basically paraphrase the question.

[@JoystickStereo]

It's only a matter of time before it's able to actually pull in data from across the internet (because people ask questions about that online and even share images of their faces all the time), come up with the best-fitting maximization algorithms to find patterns between people's facial features and the opinions of others' responses, and generate an answer based on the user's prompts. Just talking about the shaving question specifically, but it could probably be generalized.

[@maedayxx]

Have you tried asking ChatGPT how many r are in the word strawberry? It’s so dumb. It will just guess. I saw a video about it yesterday and I don’t remember exactly how it works but it takes a couple of the words and makes them into code so the AI doesn’t read the actual words we write but uses codes kinda, told you I didn’t remember it all lol. Took 5 times asking for ChatGPT to finally say there were 3 r in strawberry. First it said 2, then 1 and then kept trying to convince me it was 2 again. After it got it right, I asked how many r are in strawberries instead of strawberry, and it told me 4😭😆 AI doesn’t know shit.

[@kiteracer]

The moment you unveiled your “extremely” “lifelike” avatar, I knew in my bones that the $4000 was justified.

[@stupidemokid182]

He looked like a young Ron Jeremy

[@hw7003]

Yay training future deep fake models

[@heyjeySigma]

This is sarcasm right? has to be. Yea im sure it is...

[@Kinoksis]

As justified as buying a second hand Honda Accord 2.2 i-CTDi

[@CWINDOWSsystem32]

@@heyjeySigmaThe "quotes" don't give it away?

[@darkfruit2412]

the bit where he walks through his room depressed all the while being surrounded by screens' overlapping media playback- was a WORK OF ART. it was probably meant as a joke or a bit but wow.

[@scootaloosweetieaj5461]

genuinely such a good showcase of how this device can absolutely make our attachment to technology even worse

[@demifolk8940]

eddy spent the entire video talking about dystopian tech futures so im sure it wasnt a random bit

[@starttofinishmediaco.2520]

That final shot of eddy alone in his home ? 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@trizmo289]

we live in a society…

[@r3dsnow757]

Why does my reply keep disappearing?

[@literally1751]

"If your brain feels like it's the real thing, why would you ever go through the trouble of feeling the real thing ever again?" This is such a genuinely terrifying line and a fantastic way to end the video. Bravo.

[@spunkush]

This applies to drugs too

[@quinnravient299]

It made me want to watch Ready Player One

[@kevykev188]

How many hours of screen time did you have today?

[@EditUnivers75]

⁠@@kevykev188”how many hours of screentime did you have today?” Kev cackled at his own witty remark, which he had also typed onto a screen.

[@danielaponte4054]

BRAVO VINCE

[@justbrowsing9697]

The AI girl was horrifying. The advertisement mentions romance, but the AI spits out a disclosure so the company doesn't get sued. It also pretends to share hobbies and tastes? That felt like a chameleon changing its appearance. Parasocial relationship is gonna have a whole new meaning in a few years

[@carultch]

It seems like all she's doing is mashing together Google search results, rather than genuinely talking to you like a fellow human.

[@tb4546]

Not to mention most services like those monitor and censor chats

[@electric7487]

​@@carultch Something about the way it talks just feels uncanny to me. And that's ignoring how all it spits out is just filler, with nothing of value.

[@tiffany8946]

@@tb4546 Yeah, chatbots only exist to steal all of our personal info.

[@RealPersistences]

The second girl isnt even the same as the first one 😭 like ya ik some video game mechanics have “AI”, but not like this bs. Good luck making NPCs that cannot get copyrighted lol

[@emilyb898]

nothing has ever so poignantly convinced me to stop picking up my phone first thing in the morning more than eddy waking up and immediately grabbing the headset. like i’m literally doing the same thing it’s just not goggles holy shit

[@HappyPsychoBunny3]

Same

[@poemsbypoetry]

Same

[@spencerjames9417]

We’re in the early stages of ready player one

[@wxzxloo]

womp womp lil bro

[@thanos879]

The solution is to insulate yourself from nonsense and unnecessary info. Then the internet/phone becomes a useful tool.

[@RatBürgerSk8]

Stuff like this is exactly why I think there's a growing "tech fatigue" amongst people. New tech tends to embody weird dystopian themes and generally feels unnecessary and forced.

[@send_a_raven]

the whole concept of big tech trying to get these screens burrowed between our eyes like eddy said is just sort of gross. it just feels scummy and invasive, lol. i hope this all dies down before it's too late

[@TheMarcQ]

@@send_a_raven No No No. You NEED AI in your fridge so we can populate it when you sleep. Just give us access to your front door lock and you will never forget about milk ever again.

[@nintySW]

@@send_a_raven The worst part is vr has already existed for Years and is actually very cool technology, at the very least for entertainment and simulators, but apple is trying to force it to work for something its just not optimal for

[@Sheridan2LT]

I think tech fatigue only happens when tech gets WORSE. You literally CANNOT get fatigued by convenience, since convenience is a thing you choose whether or not to have, not something you are literally forced to live with. The only way to circumvent tech fatigue is to make tech better, faster and more convenient. I almost kind of get the appeal of the Apple Vision Pro now that I think about it. You don't have to wrestle into your pockets for your phone, to unlock it, to type on the greasy keyboard, to wrestle with the slow performance and the bulky interface..... Like think about it. One of the most popular premium services, Spotify, you can listen to on the headset WITHOUT taking out your phone or keeping your phone opened constantly like you are required to on default Spotify Free. KZbin, like he showed in the video, you can literally watch while you're doing the dishes, without worrying about splashing your phone with water. Wet hands? No problem, you are literally touching the AIR. Even if you get dirt on your hands, you know you're not going to grease up your phone because you are not using a phone. I agree that it's dissociative and disconnected, but so is using a phone in public. Absolutely people stare down to look at their phones in public, because for most sane people the anxiety of city life is literally unbearable (worrying about pickpockets, people judging you, etc.) It's REALLY not that different to using your phone for 8 hours a day. I think it's definitely a bit better than a VR headset, because that literally just isolates you from everyone and everything, but in a way worse as well.

[@McP1mpin]

See I disagree with Eddie here. I don't think tech companies are forcing this on us, I think these are things that we asked for. How many people watched a movie like Minority Report and imagined what it would be like to be able to do those same things? How many dreamed of technology getting to a point where they can access information and create virtual worlds with a swipe of their hands? I know I did. It wasn't until seeing the product in action that I realized the dystopian nature of it, but that doesn't mean I get to retroactively pretend like I never wanted it in the first place. I did and millions of sci-fi dreamers like me did too.

[@frozenbinarystudio]

The fact the AI gf in the ad only has her face move while the rest of the image is perfectly still is extremely unsettling

[@SodiumWage]

She's like a Family Guy animation

[@kerseyHarding]

It's like going to the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney Land

[@amandah8258]

And only her eyes and mouth. No wrinkling or creasing at ALL. So eerie

[@nicholaslogan6840]

it's at best moderately unsettling compared to what she was saying

[@RadioactiveRabbit]

I agree, the ai girlfriends all look and talk so fake it deeply disturbed me when Eddie was watching those advertisements.

[@zakkholguin3942]

Dude this episode was DARK. I love how the music at the end the gets more demented and distorted followed by that message. Really drives everything home.

[@alch3myst]

RIGHT?! What a perfect artistic decision

[@flustrator]

Wasn’t expecting a Black Mirror episode pretending to be an Eddy Burback video. But here we are.

[@TheManinBlack9054]

Black Mirror is a stupid and bad series. I don't know how it got popular. People love to eat shit, I guess.

[@vaygo.forlorn]

@@TheManinBlack9054 I am also going to add nothing to this comment!

[@windows1895]

wdymmmmm its so clear that nothing in the video showed the sinister implications of the role of technology in contemporary society! :3

[@ahoustonpsych]

​@@TheManinBlack9054nobody asked

[@Sugarman96]

@@TheManinBlack9054 No thanks.

[@bretthake7713]

Insane that the AIs started around "hey did you talk to any humans or go outside today?" And rapidly devolved in to "we will form an attachment with each other that is deeper than the Mariana Trench teehee"

[@retromei]

RIGHT 💀💀

[@jamies5621]

it’s genuinely terrifying

[@nomoretwitterhandles]

I miss when AI chatbots were limited to Evie and other similar chatbots :/ At least they were fun to mess around with! These new AI chatbots are just... creepy.

[@arsondarksea]

A.l. is straight up demonic, regardless of what people think. I made a documentary proving it but folks still think it's "just technology" and nothing more. Anywho, God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the name above all names & the only way to Heaven❤

[@gwennorthcutt421]

@@nomoretwitterhandles thats because, like ai art, they used to be Toys. fun things to fuck around with and share funny results with your friends. no one pretended they were anything more, nor tried to sell them as a Replacemtn for human accomplishment.

[@nickzav]

non-consentual advertising should be considered thought pollution and treated as a crime

[@Darthdoodoo]

They consider buying their garbage consent to do whatever they want to you

[@rontheron4807]

In France smashing billboards is a staple of a lot of protests, not everyone can get on board with this kind of strategy which is fair but it is a compelling temporary fix, we've seen that when done regularly enough (like it happened last year when our government provoked a rise in the number of protests) the private companies that own them can refuse to fix them, leaving big chunk of cities ad-less for weeks

[@veerkillerx]

worked in 1942

[@aidna042]

@@rontheron4807i wish england was half as good as france in protesting

[@westhefitting4105]

Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

[@John-du2mq]

"This is not about isolation, it's about connection" Yeah, connection to endless ads in your eyeballs

[@DapperDill]

I love Tim Cook's response to the question about regular affordability. He genuinely has no earthly idea what affordability is.

[@redwiltshire1816]

Yeah the affordability is the biggest problem with VR/AR like sure it’s handy but no working man is going out of his way to buy this

[@parappathegamer2118]

@@redwiltshire1816fwiw it’ll probably be cheaper a few years from now

[@G30RG3KA]

@@redwiltshire1816 apparently the meta quest is literally the apple vision pro for a quarter of the price and you can play xbox with it on an augmented display where apple cannot and probably will never.

[@Poseidon650]

This has always been how new technology works though. Early versions are always exorbitantly expensive, give it another 10 years and it’ll be in the range of an iphone, and competitors will have cheaper options.

[@billbill6094]

​​@@redwiltshire1816 100%, I've never even tried VR in the however many years it's been a common thing because it's so outside the realm of normal affordability it's laughable. I suppose I could save up for one if I wanted to, but it's such a limited purpose thing I've never actively wanted to do that.

[@Sanri0hoe]

Seeing the number of screens you can have open at once was terrifying

[@chasebailey3721]

The concept of a smartphone has peaked, so instead of focusing our efforts on tackling issues like, I dunno, the ever-increasing cost of living and climate change, we're going to dig our heels further and monetize our every waking moment instead. I guarantee, once this kind of technology is embedded inside our minds, it's going to make us watch an ad before going to bed.

[@Whiteythereaper]

Ready Player One's villain motivation being selling off a large amount of the player's view for advertising was supposed to be satire. Less than 10 years after the movie came out, it's Apple, X and Meta's driving philosophy. Harvesting user data to sell off for targeted advertising.

[@sybo59]

@@WhiteythereaperSo in other words, they’re doing something completely different than in the book…

[@PineappleLiar]

Honestly the sensory overload made me feel pretty nauseous.

[@arsondarksea]

Lol seriously! God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the name above all names & the only way to Heaven❤

[@fka_sophrosyne]

The idea of a baby wearing a vision pro so parents can show them floating AR sensory videos is sci-fi dystopian nightmare fuel…

[@ZacharyShade]

And probably about 10 years out lol.

[@treelady5560]

It's already happening with iPads, that would just be the next step

[@soupcangaming662]

Well, we also have Neuralink, and that's way worse... imagine the controlled shocks

[@cosmogang]

There is no spoon

[@ZDCastle]

Donnie Darko assed comment

[@EducatedNation2]

As a lawyer, please don’t use the AI “lawyer”. For one, it’s against the law for anyone who is not a lawyer to give legal advice. 2nd, all AIs do is scrape the internet, there is a lot of bad legal advice on the internet. It will give you wrong info. If you need a lawyer contact your state’s bar association and they can help you match with a real lawyer that’s in your budget. Lots of lawyers also do pro bono work or work on contingency (they only get paid if they win).

[@KarmikCykle]

Not to mention there's real life examples you can find of actual lawyers trying to use AI and having it hallucinate entire cases.

[@EducatedNation2]

@@KarmikCykle these lawyers also get in a lot of trouble if they are caught using AI in cases

[@CowboyLuigi]

I'm still wondering who and how there are A.I Lawyers. Where in the algorithm does that show up?

[@KirbyCom]

It has me a little concerned if AI "lawyers" were one day considered legally legitimate, if instead of having state-appointed lawyers they'd just stick someone with an AI...

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

@@KirbyComI mean it saves them money, and the people who need a pro bono lawyer are often less affluent people who simply can’t afford to pay an attorney fee for a lawyer who actually cares. Fuck the poor am I right?

[@brickhammer04]

There are not nearly enough people talking about the last bit where he not so subtly made fun of BetterHelp for having unlicensed therapists.

[@SigmaQuotesForRealSigmas]

no replies? lemme fix that.

[@xstonerkiingx]

only one reply ?? lemme fix that- 😂

[@thehandicapp4638]

only two replies? lemme fix that.

[@AshFin-iu2ze]

"Hey sorry looks like our time is up! Don't have time to look for my license and show it to ya gotta get to the next client aww geez, nothin i can do!"

[@bobler6]

4 replies? lemme fix that

[@squirrels9722]

Really enjoying Eddy's transition from "guy who commits hard to a bit until it physically harms him" to "guy staring down the barrel of a reality he does not want to live in. but also there's bits."

[@Generalizedfeelings]

Reality is often disappointing

[@ight_of_heart]

Videos like this are a good indicator we are waking up

[@MarkMark-kj9xp]

It was a good life, thrice i had berry's and once, a pear.

[@anderssorenson9998]

Sometimes just pretending to be Joaquin Phoenix can make you go full method,

[@scorchinorphan1687]

@@ight_of_heart Because there is repeated times in history semi-known people make jokes about the time they live in and changing it. For sure guy, let me know if people woke up in 10 years.

[@sireggsalad]

the scene where he was scrolling through tiktok in the dark and saw the ai girlfriend ads was one of the most depressing and dread inspiring things I've seen in a while. put a dark feeing in my stomach ngl

[@EVEMASTER99]

Welcome to the new age

[@CrAzYpotpie]

As someone who has had zero trouble getting women, it doesn't bother me at all. Maybe people that do care or are scared/worried out by it are the opposite of that.

[@MasqueradePW]

@@CrAzYpotpiethis has to be bait lol the loneliness epidemic becoming an investment opportunity for exploitative AI startups is gross and trying to turn it into an opportunity to flex is gross too

[@CrAzYpotpie]

@@MasqueradePW I don't see a problem with the most disgusting and loser of men getting some happiness in their life when it hurts no one else.

[@CrAzYpotpie]

@@MasqueradePW Lonely, sad, unattractive people getting some joy in life, at the harm of no one else, yeah, sounds so evil.

[@RagdollWraith]

39:34 im so glad you could put into words the fact that corporations are PUSHED to become greedier and more evil as time goes on, not just by greed of CEO's, but the terrible effects of being a publically traded company. making your company public has to be the closest real life analogy to selling your soul to the devil... incredible riches at the cost of everything else including your goodwill and humanity.

[@flameshade7601]

I'd go even further and say this is the true endstage of everything under capitalism. It is horrifying. People don't matter, results don't matter, only profit, forever.

[@Folderol753]

My grandfather died about a decade ago. He painted quite a bit when I was young, and portraits of my brother, sister, and me that he made all still hang in my mother's house. The idea of covering them with an AI replacement was viscerally upsetting in a way I didn't expect. I know it isn't the real point of this video per se, but good God did that upset me.

[@Whiteythereaper]

And devices like these will actively scan those artworks hanging on your wall to add them to the AI database. It's just another personal data selling stream using video and not just the constant audio surveillance over the last 15 years, especially from Alexa devices.

[@Onomatopoeia4u]

​@@Whiteythereaper Holy $ht. I didn't even think of that. Tight.

[@ashfox7498]

@@Whiteythereaper Maybe that's a clever way to get the costs down! You know smart TVs already only cost 10% of their Asian price in America because of this kind of data harvesting.

[@KiLLKiNDLY]

I thought he was going to put it beside the others but then to put it over was a decision

[@Folderol753]

@@KiLLKiNDLY Same. It made his point much better though.

[@bouin91]

This video started as a goofy tech review and ended in a nightmare spiral. The horror.

[@DmanLucky_98]

The Apple fanboy lifestyle 😂 Have a useless product but is good because Daddy Tim Cook says it

[@isthisthereallife4207]

the horror!! for real...

[@navsofour2892]

Yeah this guy is genius, great documentary.

[@pip-pip5029]

Complete unease

[@austins.2495]

It’s a beautiful thing. A lot of what makes his videos so good is lost on his fan base

[@murilkaa]

"Are you feeling alone and isolated because of too much technology? Why don't you use more technology to solve that?"

[@alexv3357]

What's this? A handsome family picnic woefully underpopulated by technology? Why, a large influx of technology ought to put a stop to that!

[@Makrel94]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@alexv3357Woefully underpopulated by technology. That would be a slammin album name 😂👍

[@SumeriyaYaxlaka]

Reject Capitalist Technological Control✊🔱

[@Feefa99]

Prelude to Butlerian Jihad

[@olli2591]

Create the sickness, sell the cure.

[@followertheleader]

Apple somehow captured the dead stare that is usually unique to Bethesda.

[@maudiemouse]

that casey take was so unsettling to me… the fact that y’all seemed like you were about to have the same opinion on how removed you felt from the world around you, until the very end of his sentence. how excited he was for that… made me kind of sad

[@__-be1gk]

Casey is an npc, it's natural he'd think something like this is a positive

[@njdotson]

Honestly I might agree with casey more than eddie because for me, I use VR once in a while but it's just for gaming. I don't think people will ever be too dependent on it

[@lavanderfrfr2063]

so you do agree with him…

[@lucky4d725]

@@njdotson so you agree with Casey that'll be good for us to be disconected with each others ? Or am i missing something here ?

[@anitacrumbly]

@@njdotson If companies weren't so greedy I would def agree I think this tech is crazy cool and as an introvert online is the only way i have ever been social before the internet i just wasn't as social i stayed inside and read books as a little little kid and extroverts are still always bugging about getting together to do this and that, the early internet did feel more connected because we were experiencing this new thing together and we all don't rely on tv to set the tone for what is trendy etc. so we are disconnected and the new sterilization of corporate run internet is what feels disconnected but to say technology itself is the reason for the disconnection no it's the greed of corporations that is disconnecting us from one another and it's on purpose.

[@gem9535]

The Casey segment nearly broke me. How he described something so dystopian and depressing, and then claimed it was a good thing unsettled me in a way I wasn't expecting. What really got to me was the AI girlfriend. Yes, you turned it into something funny, a good parody, but there are genuine people out there who use these services because they're that lonely. They're that isolated and these companies aren't creating products which could help them conquer their obstacles, but rather create more. They WANT to drain people of LIFE, 'cause that means they'll buy more products to try and fill the void. They're advertising themselves as a symbiotic aid when they're a parasite in a flimsy, plastic disguise.

[@PurushaDesa]

I know! He wants to turn the entire world into his fucking bedroom!

[@MAYERMAKES]

it highlights how detached from realitiy people like casey have already gotten to mistake this for a good thing.

[@Exigentable]

They are paid a lot of money to influence purchasing decisions. All of these influencers, including our boy Eddy here, are parasites.

[@hannahspinney6823]

That's capitalism babeee

[@maninblack3410]

This whole video and these comments give off such Luddite vibes lol. What happened to trashing a product because it’s over priced garbage instead of fear mongering and questioning the moral fiber of society? I mean… I guess it’s modern day political discourse in full swing, nothing can’t *not* be about politics and if you don’t pick a side you’re amoral… but still, get a grip guys.

[@just-a-silly-goofy-guy]

The segment where Eddy wore the goggles for a whole day was just light enough on the satire that you know this is how a few techbros are genuinely living, extremely upsetting

[@JStack]

I have a family member who has gone from "I could use it to multitask at work without my boss knowing," to has a fanny pack for charging it on the go because he wears it so much. I tried and got nauseas after a few min. Have always been bummed I can't do VR sword fighting because I get sick, but apparently it's a built in hack to not fall into this new level of tech addiction

[@ilikegamesye]

when i had mine i kept having anxiety attacks i couldn't explain. it's so isolating at a time where we're already all so distant from each other. i couldn't return it any faster. absolutely amazing movie watching device.

[@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965]

this $4K was supposed to buy me happiness

[@ilikegamesye]

@@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965 not even kidding, this struck me harder than anything and was probably the source of my panic attacks. no amount of money can buy you happiness, after your needs are being met, that is.

[@MellisaDalka]

👍👍👍

[@vojeurist]

Never seen a video with a replay spike in the last five seconds. Best 45 minute horror movie I've seen

[@pattykcake]

The shade towards better help has not gone unnoticed, thank you Eddy you are a real one

[@travisq2039]

Out of the loop, whats up with better help?

[@PinkCatsy]

​@travisq2039 there's few videos about it. I haven't watched a recent one. But I've heard they underpay the therapists and probably just do like company things. Like they don't prioritize the wellbeing of their customers or therapists

[@esmeecampbell7396]

@@PinkCatsy that's all therapists. They're only after your money. Normal people don't need to pay for indoctrination to whatever fucking socialist propaganda they got taught

[@ealusaid]

@@travisq2039 Long story short, they're not a healthcare company, they're a tech company. Their decisions, from hiring people to handling user data, prioritize their bottom line. There have been a lot of incidents like doing a big marketing push when there aren't enough therapists ready to take on new clients so people who thought they'd get help quickly have to wait for who-knows-how-long, letting people register as therapists when they don't have the right/current credentials, or uploading personally identifiable data (including markers like seeking religious or LGBTQ+ focused services) to advertiser databases.

[@imjustdandy9799]

They don’t have to give you a liscenced therapist. Note all their ads now say “professionals”

[@spacewardtossah]

yknow that ready player one scene where the CEO dudes saying shit like " we can take up 80% of the screen before seizures are induced" this feels like that

[@mariokarter13]

VR is finally advanced enough that the problems with VR as a technology are too glaring to ignore. Cellphones took off because it solved the problem of being unable to communicate when you're away from a landline. VR solves the problem of not having a headset strapped to your face.

[@tortellinifettuccine]

Lmao God I'm so tired of people talking about that movie. That movie was shameful, and destroyed the reputation of the book it was based on. The book is easily one of the best reads of my life, and the movie is another corporate throw away

[@CCriddy50]

​@@tortellinifettuccineBrother as someone who loves the book and has read it like 15 times it's kinda..bad. it's really enjoyable and fun but it's just as schlocky garbage as the movie. The second book is even worse it's nearly unreadable tbh

[@spacewardtossah]

@@tortellinifettuccine imagine having such a pretentious take on a mid tier book

[@cody7689]

@@spacewardtossah right?? like i thought the movie was lame, but i thought the book was also pretty mediocre.

[@RoryStarr]

Holy shit, the AI girlfriend was horrifying.

[@JustGamerRapBattles]

Agreed that moment had me feeling a little genuinely uncomfortable

[@submortimer]

Exactly the same. That is some black mirror, dark ass shit.

[@devastatheseeker9967]

It could be good for ssome people but the concept of ai friendships and romances is incredibly unhealthy.

[@theholymage7188]

Bladerunner moment

[@SonofPhobos]

It suddenly became an episode of Black Mirror.

[@Oraclix]

The ending of this video actually really scared me. I’m a teenager right now, and the fact that I’m already using my phone a lot is an issue with me. Now seeing what VR could do to my life? I already struggle with the thought that my family members are getting older, and seeing this means that you’d be spending precious moments with them on your screen. Great video.

[@lytsongaming]

"Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus"

[@bl8de3]

My cat and I died from laughter reading this

[@wolfidessdragondol]

Hell, so many movies and Tv shows tackle these sort of things and next thing yk is that some tech bro ends up actually creating it. Like with Squid Game the point of these stories get lost in these peoples' minds

[@wabbajack2]

​@wolfidessdragondol lol the Squid Game reality gameshow that got made. Like, did they miss the part where everyone died?

[@FeiFongWang]

This meme is older than Hubbard Malone

[@liv97497]

​@@wabbajack2 And then the scandal that people were mistreated and abused during shooting... like, are we even surprised?

[@bloodysparkles5372]

as a person who constantly opens tabs and forgets about them, there are some horrific implications to being able to leave tabs scattered around my house. like what if i open the hall closet for the first time in a while and i find out youtube autoplay has been going down a rabbit hole in the dark for a week.

[@hopelessent.1700]

I feel like this is the worst product to come about if people develop schizophrenia. Just imagine how many times are you just hearing something and unable to decipher it as an ad…

[@wolverinexo6417]

That's funny though

[@boosted2022]

@@hopelessent.1700To be fair… most people with schizophrenia are unfortunately the same people you see smoking meth on the sidewalk downtown. They’re not dropping 3600 bucks on a headset. It’s not their fault, our government and healthcare system failed them.

[@fomorians]

Then you'd become a Tab Hoarder

[@GoalOrientedLifting]

Don't worry, it's so bad at remembering that everything resets once you use it in a different place😂

[@joebarrett8310]

That AI conversation about the chicken milanese sandwich was one of the most haunting things I’ve seen in a while. An uncanny voice calling a sandwich tasty despite never tasting one because it's "analyzed countless recipes and reviews" feels physically revolting. Makes me want to go for a long walk. Easily your best video yet. EDIT: Glad to know everyone else is as disturbed by this as I am. The walk was lovely.

[@plebmcpleb5761]

Actually felt shivers down my spine listening to all this AI talk. The final form of digital brain rot.

[@peebozuna]

I know the phrase gets haphazardly tossed around these says but it felt so genuinely uncanny like nothing else. I feel so fucking sorry for the people who have been snared by these bots, it’s beyond bleak. The last two thirds of this video where genuinely hard to sit through…

[@esmeecampbell7396]

@@peebozuna you're weak, you'll never cope in this world if that shit is enough to upset you. Better hope you don't discover the Wikipedia page for "active wars" or "cot death"

[@itspaddyd]

I love it because, no she hasn't analysed anything! It's constantly lying!

[@mrp1zz492]

It probably just recognizes you're eating and says it'd be nice

[@viperreal9184]

i think a reason why the dissociation after taking the headset off was so bad for the apple pro is because its showing you the fake stuff alongside stuff that is real. i used to get that feeling when playing vr games with hand tracking especially because the hand tracking on my headset is really bad. expecting your hands to not do what you tell them to is a new thing for sure (in vacation simulator a lot of the times u want to pick an object off the ground ur hand will phase out of existence and only show up in brief flickers while your actual hand is somewhere else)

[@UnitSe7en]

"I have analyzed countless recipes and reviews" So romantic and genuine. Please, continue.

[@azricon]

fart

[@zf9903]

@@azriconI love you

[@joylyth3608]

when you put the ai painting over your fathers one it really struck me that there are going to be people who live in virtually decorated houses, which would just be empty walls and bare furniture but with the headset(or whatever in the future) on, it would be furnished with ai paintings or even just images of already famous paintings, scary realizing how dystopian the present and near future are.

[@Selfinflictedhummusrocket]

I mean this sounds like a really cool way to put a famous art gallery anywhere in the world. Museum culture could change forever and more people more informed about history is a good thing.

[@babblesbabbles]

And you'll pay real money for it

[@guywithinterwebs]

and each piece of virtual decor will cost money close to what real decor costs now. Landlords will start including virtual decor only clauses in their leases..... Jesus

[@Jake-wi1wv]

We're living in PSYCHO-PASS

[@k3salieri]

Damn... Psycho-Pass was right...

[@brickonator]

I know most people are going to talk about that AI girl thing being exploitative or "cringe" or whatever, but the thing that stood out to me the most was how 90% of her conversation was just "isn't AI a cool business venture?" She sounds more like she wants to sell me video game development middleware more than actually play games with me. If I met a real person talking like that, I'd feel like I'm getting roped into a MLM business scam more than a friend or date.

[@lpnp9477]

She wants to sell you land in the metaverse

[@NDnf84]

And that's how that type of "experience" will always be.

[@menacing_name]

​@@lpnp9477 luigi no

[@emilpersidski]

​@@lpnp9477 Virtal land all across the globe

[@NivRel]

well, i'm pretty sure whoever commissioned that doesn't have a clear idea of basic human interaction, probably it's a tech bro/investor/someone attracted to online lifestyle gurus.

[@Drummerhoost]

I feel dissociated and physically under the weather just spending a day couch rotting and watching videos on my phone, still interacting with the environment around me (I type as that’s what I’m currently doing), and I’ve spent a couple hours at a time in VR playing games before. I’ve felt the effects of doing that and it’s equivalent to being sick if done enough. I can’t imagine wearing these for an extended period of time, let alone putting them on every day as a part of my routine or like a pair of glasses. We are inching closer to the fate of the humans in Wall•e every day and it’s scary. No… it’s terrifying

[@azenyr]

Fun fact: to replace the front glass (that is not even actually glass) of the apple vision pro without AppleCare costs $799. With AppleCare it costs $299, but the AppleCare itself costs $499. So to replace the front glass WITH AppleCare you save a single freaking dollar. God I hate this company.

[@alex_is_out]

That is outrageous

[@resolvanlemmy]

You don't need AppleCare, but you should still get it because we want that extra dollar so that Tim Cook can afford that 8th mansion

[@nixl3518]

Well you're just looking for reasons to hate Apple so who cares if you like telling god how u hate Apple!! After all, HE gave Eve the Apple to hand Adam and we got you!!

[@alex_is_out]

@@nixl3518 Wtf are you on about

[@goclunker]

@@nixl3518nutter😂😂😂😂😂

[@Haunted_Plush]

Kurtis: this vintage tech is so fun and cool! I'm so glad I got to give it one more day to be useful Eddy: **the future is here and it will consume us**

[@hollownix]

That closing shot was so unsettling and portrayed that feeling of isolation you were talking about so well, I love the artistry you've been adding to your videos recently!

[@johnnyWL]

Seriously.

[@MickZarco]

I was having a fun time with the video before that last part, now I'm (more) depressed.

[@obeseperson]

Isolation? That shit kicks ass!!

[@keith_5584]

That Synthwave burrowed right into you and exploded. Reminds me of that game a few years ago where you are a space explorer with an AI partner.

[@aquaman52]

It actually made me feel uneasy because I was a guy watching him sit there with my iphone doing something not so different

[@tesseractaether]

bro literally put himself through a black mirror episode for us damn

[@redwaytoo]

I hate it how nowadays every new technological invention isn't pitched as a legit life improvement that would benefit humanity. Instead they try to create this cloud of inevitability around it, like "oh there's no going back now, adapt or be left in the dust!", like how NFT bros talked about NFTs

[@thelexicon7294]

It’s EXACTLY that Tech Crunch scene from Silicon Valley. Highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it, it’s on YT. “Making the world a better place.”

[@backdoorsystems9762]

Honestly that’s how AI art/AI writing is right now. “It’s not a problem if we create stuff from stolen works, because it’s inevitable! You should totally use it and buy programs that run it, you don’t want to be left behind doooooo yooooouuuu!?”

[@redwaytoo]

@@backdoorsystems9762 yeah exactly!

[@SomeAndroid]

No doubt. Products that don't have enough current value has to market itself as an inveitability in order to try and make people buy into it.

[@strayiggytv]

​@@ergwertgesrthehwehwejwe there's a million videos explaining why it does and why no it's not the same as how people get inspired and learn from each other. Nobody has time to educate you go educate yourself

[@grapetoad6595]

The name erogen is incredibly suspect when they say it's about an emotional connection. Feels like they made a hard pivot between naming and launch.

[@Lynxiro]

It most likely has something do with serving ads, why they only mention emotional connection. I googled the company and their blurb is: "Explore new frontiers with romantic and NSFW AI chatbots. Meet your AI lover and travel unexplored lands, revel in fantasy, and explore the depths of ...". Maybe the naming actually works to make people go "That name is pretty sus" and google it.

[@iindustrialmetal]

didnt notice this at first lmao

[@stevenr.rodriguez9997]

"I'd love to get to know you better 🥵🥵😍😍" - Qualified Professional Therapist

[@pankopo]

Itd probably be problematic if the ad showed how it actually works

[@korg47237]

The funniest thing about it is it's clearly just the OpenAi API guiding a response.

[@greysonsiminak8499]

the last 2 minutes of this video were so jarring in the best way. like the last shot of eddy just sitting in the corner was like bone chilling lmfao. "because if your brain feels like it's the real thing, why would you ever go through the trouble of feeling the real thing ever again." like holy shit i felt that in my core dude. very good video

[@pandoriasbox]

Reminds me a lot of the "pleasure cube" comic by Merryweather.

[@NimsoStudios]

Regarding the dissociation element of it all I can mention something that I've actually had in my 10 years working on VR. I spent a lot of time working on locomotion systems, where I physically walk in place with the joystick pointed in the direction I want to go to move at whatever speed my body dictates. Having gotten so used to this system there was one time when I stood up from a chair and pushed my thumb forward... forgetting that I'm not in VR, I just got up from a chair and tried to move using a non-existent controller!

[@hawkgirl9984]

The AI girlfriend is truly depressing. "Hey, dont make meaningful human connections. Talk to an unfeeling machine who is only talking to you because it's programmed to." Sure it's an amazing feat of tech, but it's truly dystopian and depressing.

[@RookMettle]

It's wild to me that we've reached a point where people can form their own parasocial relationships with an AI. Though the phrase is overused and a bit insensitive, this does genuinely feel like the pinnacle of being terminally online. Companies are going to love when these things become affordable (if ever) because it's an all-new algorithm that they can use to feed more ads and services to consumers who are depraved of connection and seeking endless hours of escapism. The technology is impressive, but I hope adoption for it doesn't catch on.

[@Gsuned]

To quote Blade Runner "You look lonely I can fix that".

[@slyishopeful5876]

watch "her"

[@TheManinBlack9054]

​@@slyishopeful5876you can't recommend sci fi, when we are talking about real world

[@soulslikefan6760]

I mean, is it any more pathetic than how some people pay for only fans or those adult cam shows?

[@alexsandifer5139]

Hey Eggy, you might not draw or paint but your skills as a cinematographer are admirable. The shot walking down the stairs and the final shot of you sitting down were really well done, taking a mundane setting and making it into art isn’t an easy thing to do

[@Lil-bug-24]

This is so true!!!!! This whole video was art

[@brandonchutt312]

Admirable but mistaken

[@d__x2555]

Ignoring the layers of irony I experienced watching this video (and of that statement itself), I have to say this has been my favourite video of the year so far. I feel inspired, existential, and a little bit horrified. I think you encapsulated so many important and incredibly real and relevant points throughout and still managed to make everything entertaining at the same time. The topic is interesting and out of reach for the average person (the answer to the affordability question is hilarious) so I really appreciate the effort put into putting this out into the world. Excellently done, Eddy (and co), seriously

[@superdude9900]

eddy burback almost ending up in "Her" is my favorite plot twist

[@orkid5480]

right!! I got so excited that I understood the reference bahaha

[@sean640]

Scarlett Jöannàssenn though!!

[@jukeboxxgamer]

This is clearly his audition tape fore the sequel wdym?

[@jamies5621]

the section talking about quarterly earnings really hit something deep within me. it’s so easy to forget that the biggest profit a tech company could make is our uncontested attention. highly trained algorithms track how long we hover over a post or an ad down to the millisecond, predicting what we want to see faster than our own brains can. hijacking dopamine receptors and training our subconscious to need constant stimulation and more dopamine. which means more content, and more ads, and more quarterly earnings. the ai ads are starting to scare me too. from imitating personal relationships to advocating for injured people to avoid going to a real lawyer and using an ai one instead, i’m not hopeful for a lot that’s to come. with any technological advancement that society makes, we seem to use it for everything and then find out the consequences. we did it with lead, asbestos, etc. now that we’re in the digital age, ai has seemed to take over as the “cure all” that’s being used to frequently. to fuck around is human but to find out is divine, and brother we will certainly find out.

[@kanjonojigoku8644]

​@@ajs1998 people already are more isolated and separated than ever, many do not choose human connections over virtual ones, they avoid real life stuff, this ai stuff is there so companies can commodify that. It's not a choice for many if you can socialise, social networks have eroded and many don't even know where to go to get a human connection outside of work or school or church, many work long hours and WOULD 100% choose to talk to an ai at home than any real person, this stuff is dystopian because it shows off just how badly capitalism fucked up our basic human functions

[@esmeecampbell7396]

@@kanjonojigoku8644 once AI replaces humans there's no reason not to choose them. From a selfish point of view, which ultimately everyone has, if you can get a Blade Runner level of indistinguishable then why even bother with fallible humans at that point? Because of some species based "nationalism" to support the team you were born into? At some point the AI will actually get smarter than humans, better, in whatever way you want it to. It would in theory be able to replace anyone within your life. Ship of Theseus argument if it knows everything a person knows, and acts exactly how they'd act, it functionally is them...

[@bread8465]

Why are people in the comments being so dramatic. In the grand scheme of things the vision pro isn't that much different from the meta quest or even a smartphone, and barely anyone has one. Yet you're acting like it's going to end the human race. Relax

[@spuriousgeorge7233]

​@@bread8465Nobody on this comment is talking about the Vision Pro

[@KuwlioKoala]

​@@bread8465I mean that's kinda the whole point the comments are making, that all of this high tech shit does the same task of making people feel even more socially isolated, with VR and AI just exponentially increasing that. There's a very real reality to how consuming that much media, buying all this over-priced bullshit, and clocking in that many hours of screentime having a massive negative impact on people's mental health.

[@galebourn]

The island in the Mr. Beast video was destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence between 1991 and 1995

[@LootGoblinPenny]

Thank you, I needed closure on that.

[@deelee4639]

Under-rated comment

[@chingorodrigo8906]

Thank you

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

Who bombed it then?

[@fungi5350]

@@therealspeedwagon1451 who bombed it? Cmon OP gave us the war, please sir, provide us with who bombed them

[@Notsaucewizard]

That shot of the apple vision pros on the ground at 29:39 and the scene before the very end are something out of a film

[@EmOgirlGuilbert]

21:32 the “not now dinosaur” made me sad.

[@chrislee8343]

I'm sorry I lost it when he apologized to the AI woman for potentially insinuating she was lying about having eaten a sandwich

[@kells4315]

I lost it when she said Dune 2 was worse

[@Atropos148]

@@kells4315 i wonder why that happened, basically every review i can find says its either as good or better than the first movie, where are the devs even getting the data that makes "her" say this

[@kells4315]

@@Atropos148 I’m guessing it predicts that after “the sequel was ___”, that usually it is worse, so it says that, forgetting the context of what movie it is talking about. That or it pulled from one rando on the internet who wrote an article saying that, even if it isn’t the consensus 😂

[@evilbob9970]

when the AI girlfriend ad said "our friends and family can take time to respond because they're on their own journeys... life is a struggle..." it really highlighted how absolutely unhinged tech has made our expectations for social interactions. Like, they really are pushing this idea that everything and everyone should be immediately available and that we should never have to wait for anything. It makes me wonder, is the reason social media makes us feel isolated because it's also taught us to expect everything as soon as we want it? Are we isolated, or do we just have unrealistic expectations for how instant our gratification should be? Are we isolated, or are we being conditioned to think that everything should be effortless even when building connections requires effort? Are we isolated, or have we forgotten how to cope with inconvenience in a world that pushes convenience onto us so heavily?

[@KyrieFortune]

Feeling it every other day but on the other end. My girlfriend keeps telling me we don't talk like we used to, not enough, sometimes we barely talk. So far it has been IMPOSSIBLE to make her understand that we live an ocean across and we both have rather frantic lives, especially her, it is LOGICALLY impossible to have a lot of talking when not only you both have stuff to do, but also have around 14 hours taken away because you both sleep at two different moments and the remaining 10 are usually occupied by work or, god forbid, real life socialization.

[@chelseashift]

to me this kind of tech also conditions people to be more individualistic... just because our friends and family are busy and on their own journeys, doesn't mean they don't have time for us? we can still rely on them and they can still rely on us? it's so yikes. life is a struggle but we're better supporting each other, not replacing that support with an AI gf

[@Thezuule1]

We’re isolated.

[@CrAzYpotpie]

​@@KyrieFortuneMaybe it is the long distance relationship where you never see each other ever that is the actual problem, not technology. Tech allowed you to even meet in the first place.

[@KyrieFortune]

​@@CrAzYpotpieexactly, we can chat in real time instead of waiting weeks for a letter, we can HEAR each other, and yet it's not enough. It HAS to be absolutely immediate. I used to feel an immense anxiety if she didn't answer within half an hour, had to go to therapy to deal with this anxiety (among other things), and now I have to be on the receiving hand of the anxiety that was ruining my life. Everything just HAS to be immediate and it's actually harmful

[@aorca8879]

I love how the video very slowly goes from product review to a whole documentary

[@Gautreaux_]

I love the dedication to this video. Rather than split it up into multiple videos or post a clickbaity “I wore the Vision Pro for 24hours straight”, I really appreciate the fact that you worked this hard to incorporate this much in this full video

[@emmanylander6250]

What a thoughtful, lovely comment.

[@RxYouth]

Is this your first Eddy video?

[@lightbluesleeper]

i struggle real hard with derealization/dissociation and i cannot imagine how badly this would fuck up my mental health...... human brains are not designed for this type of constant consumption of media

[@jedschrock7636]

Yeah I know how you feel, I struggle with it in episodes. Something like this would be a nightmare

[@erin1912]

i feel the same way

[@brybrybry995]

I’ve been recently struggling with moments of derealisation which trigger panic attacks, so yeah, I feel you. I am hopeful that not a lot of people will fall prey to this tech. It’s scary stuff.

[@RyuLightorb]

depends on the person really but yeah a lot of people do get impacted with dissociation so they should not be using it.

[@normburner]

really reminds me of that funny feeling by bo burnham, this whole video really feels like an echo of inside's message and its really unsettling

[@VoodooSilk]

The AI basically answering "Yes and No/Whatever you think" to every question was hilarious.

[@doctorspook4414]

Literally like a psychologist. 🤣

[@briandecker8403]

@@doctorspook4414 ELIZA!!

[@AkamiChannel]

It gave me anxiety and made me a little angry

[@themasstermwahahahah]

Strong opintions about Dune 2 though...

[@reshpeck]

And to think he was going to fire his real life girlfriend...

[@Pa_amb_tomaquet]

43 quality minutes. Not even a second was skippable. Keep the great job, I'll send this to my friends so you can recover the 4000$.

[@laurajj]

as someone that quit social media and is trying to limit screen time, this is a terrifying future. too much time on the internet really affects my mental health negatively. we need to start caring more about nature and the environment around us. we are becoming so disconnected from nature and the rise of mental illness reflects that.

[@tc2241]

Same here. I still comment on YT, so I need to cut that out as well. My next step is to get a dumb phone. That said, I still genuinely like the idea of VR for work to allow me to detach from my desktop and a legitimate ai assistant would be crazy helpful too. Outside of that however, everything else seem like a scene before the robots take over and trap us in the matrix

[@kingdingaling3376]

The rise of the mental illness of the apes

[@darksidegryphon5393]

Ever heard of zoochosis?

[@tysopiccaso8711]

Ok amish​@@tc2241

[@Appellonia]

Same same same

[@200131240]

That Vanessa thing was like the start of a horror movie. Like watching a demon about to eat Eddy’s soul

[@cocoataku]

Real 😂

[@dannyg.4421]

Accurate

[@a_plastic_bag]

Factual

[@thevikingbear2343]

It was literally the movie Her. If you didn't see it you didn't get the joke about the AI gf dumping him.

[@aymuhspunj]

Truthful

[@anabryant8668]

Dude, this genuinely tripped me up ngl. I've been trying to rethink my screen use in light of being lowkey addicted. The thought that things can get worse and that the goal is unlimited looping disconnection from reality is crazy, it's giving dystopia and not in a fun way

[@jeremiahbennett3004]

Question, what would giving dystopia IN a fun way look like?

[@von...]

@@jeremiahbennett3004 ketamine is legal, but dolphins gained the ability to live on land & now run the government... just the first example of many off the top of my head

[@Window4503]

@@jeremiahbennett3004Probably the cool fictional dystopias where you’re the main character and totally gaming the system with your buddies and having adventures and being all edgy and rebellious and stuff

[@ashelfishisttortle]

Cyberpunk is already here, the technology hasn’t been distributed yet

[@shoumpue]

Same. I always have twitch on another monitor (maybe an attention deficit thing) but that just distracting from a different monitor. It's weird to think of having twitch on while talking to people in person. It'd be so easy too. Scary stuff

[@elhazthorn918]

Top-tier video. I saw someone call you Eggy in the comments, and I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but now I want to call you Eggy.

[@JayColor]

I used to get the same feeling of disassociation when I would play Playstation VR all night. My hands started feeling fake in real life and I felt like what I was seeing wasn't real. I cannot imagine how much worse the feeling would be after using a product that's meant to be worn throughout the entire day.

[@bubbleslovely129]

That feeling goes away with time, i had it when i first tried vr

[@Skylancer727]

@@bubbleslovely129 I can't say I've experienced similar. It's likely because to me VR just doesn't look realistic enough. There's just always something uncanny of the depth you see, how lacking detail objects usually are, and the lack of seeing yourself.

[@TkaziT]

@@Skylancer727 That all changes when it blends into real life as well as the vision pro does. It will just disconnect already disconnected people when it becomes more widely used.

[@jamies5621]

i already have enough issues with dissociation in my daily life that whenever i use a VR the rest of my day feels like i’m wading through water

[@randomtinypotatocried]

@@jamies5621That's why I don't want anything to do with vr since I deal with disassociation as it is

[@spchppfm]

everytime i hear "with the power of ai" i feel myself physically sink into my own being

[@aprilmeowmeow]

the funny part is, the power of ai is really just the power of the people who continuously train, annotate, and build them.

[@Sasu123456789x1]

Ugh same!

[@garystinten9339]

I feel compelled to argue with it until it hits a loop in topic and try to break it.

[@ineffablemars]

@@aprilmeowmeow and the power of stealing work from artists to "create" new "art"

[@pasty609]

@@aprilmeowmeow same with the power of medicine? Or the power of any technology? Don’t really get your point

[@TRDRHDB]

This might actually be the most terrifying video on youtube jesus christ the second half of this video gave me an unmatched amount of fear

[@TRDRHDB]

​@haveanotherpinacolada tf you mean lad like this doesnt scare you too bruh

[@whiskeybuddha1995]

Walking around NYC with this used car on your head is a neon sign that says "ROB ME!"

[@senaidyl]

As someone with severe debilitating migraines, the idea that AR/VR is the future sounds like an absolute worst-case scenario to me. I already look at screens too much and want nothing more than to be able to escape them, but my job is dependent on them.

[@Viteaification]

as someone who also wears prescription glasses? i hate any tech that needs me to use goggles. cant see shit

[@CleverUsername69420]

As someone with sensory issues who gets motion sickness super easily, I feel the same. This would be literal hell for me

[@julesyano4337]

Idk if I have any conditions, but yeah, whenever I think of people looking at screens all day I just think of the worst headache ever. For me it's just bound to happen, and made worse because in that case I just forget to eat or drink then my condition is made even worse. Why would you want this!?!?!?!?!?!?

[@missaniebananie6473]

Same, this was my first thought

[@riaperez2667]

yeahhh ever since my first rodeo w VR in high school (so almost a decade ago at this point 😅) i learned it only takes a minute or two before i’m nauseous & head throbbing, it messes with my body in ways i can’t even describe so i fear it becoming more popular!!! glad to know i’m not the only one 😭

[@BlizzBlitz1995]

The moustache bit was great. The ai not being capable of forming any concrete opinion is perfection.

[@robotpanda77]

It can it just doesnt want to risk offending you if you arent what it says it likes. Thats why it has no issue saying it liked dune and sandwich types.

[@matthews8082]

26:41 “if you’ve been hurt in a car accident, I’m about to turn your life upside down” That’s a very poor choice of words

[@WiltedFlora]

World*

[@sprinx1766]

@@WiltedFlora 🤓

[@WiltedFlora]

@@sprinx1766 the saying could be misinterpreted if one word is wrong just like with most sentences, just cause you don’t realize that doesn’t mean you have to be a dickhead about it.😐

[@calebfuller4713]

Well, after watching that guy walk around the city with the headset on, I suspect we're about to see a MASSIVE increase in people being hurt in car accidents.

[@thatoneXman]

Experienced a near-death experience? You're in luck! :D

[@whiskeyskeleton]

I think the final shot was fantastically done. The visual was so spot on - you, sitting isolated with the headset on, electronic music playing, all gray, and the shot itself is isolated as a bar on the screen. Really cool stuff, man. That’s art just like your family makes

[@_hadoken]

As a lawyer working in AI legal tech, that company is asking to get hammered by every jurisdiction's court it operates in lol.

[@saliferousstudios]

You must be buried in work right now. Lol.

[@GravityVT]

What if it’s made by some developer in India or China?

[@burritowarrior77]

​@saliferousstudios probably the fastest growing job market in the us rn lol

[@saliferousstudios]

@@GravityVT it has to abide by rules for any place it's being sold. That's why you get those cookie acceptance messages on websites now. There's a law in (the eu I believe) that requires them.

[@hanthonyc]

I feel absolutely the same as a mental health counselor. These AI bots are 'yes men' to unhealthy coping mechanisms and escapism, furthering people into a chemical depression/constant understimulation. And then it gets worse enough for the actual professionals to get involved (when we probably should have been in the first place)... Our job isn't just to validate and listen, it's to challenge unhealthy thought patterns and teach skills to mitigate cognitive distortions or interpersonal effectiveness. That is not what an "AI ""therapist""" does. We aren't anywhere near being replaced, haha. Not when these AI bots clearly aren't developed by people who competently understand law or mental health.

[@gingerninja137]

the long shot of Eddy in his room at the end with the music transitioning from "bright looking future" to "unsettling dystopia" was so so good. incredibly well done.

[@raven-chan2071]

The AI girl made me so mad. “Oh I liked this movie” “drawing relaxes me” you CANT do any of that. She’s just a voice. I hate that

[@jackute3693]

stay mad im ryan gosling-pilled

[@ginanotafan1039]

I h8 it too. AI is the beginning of the end.

[@koris95]

Also the Doom movies were horrible

[@stephengatley8144]

@@koris95 Dune

[@koris95]

@@stephengatley8144 Oh ...

[@danidargelio]

it's crazy we're leaning into the cyberpunk dystopia in the worst ways possible. instead of the cool cybernetic implants we get visual overwhelm and artificial loneliness

[@SQUIZZLER24]

“You look lonely, I can fix that.” *Eddy with a bandaged nose and a $3,000 headset looks up with a blank expression*

[@OlufemiFilms]

The "Her" storyline naturally unfolding was a perfect touch dude

[@miragesofmatchstickmen1760]

If people ask me where I can watch Her I'm gonna link them this video

[@thanhavictus]

Her was truly a touching movie and can only have happened in that fantasy. Nowadays it just seems out right naive giving what we know about actual AI

[@Pseudo-Fraxineus]

burback even looks a little like joaquin phoenix in that film.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

​@@thanhavictus"after years researches have created the tormentus nexus, from the cautionary tale 'do not create tormentus nexus' "

[@IsaacFoster..]

Woah, getting friendzoned by an AI while using a Vision Pro is an experience for sure.

[@mattpast9822]

She thought Dune 1 was better than Dune 2. That’s not even friend material, unplug her

[@emiletremblay1377]

It's the plot from HER, masterpiece movie btw

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Yeah, I can't believe Drew Gooden (the hyperintelligent android) broke up with him.

[@henryapplebottom7231]

Eddie: Should I shave my beard or not? "Angel": That depends, do you want to shave your beard or not? Ai truly is the future of love and affection.

[@actuallyJubb]

god this video was so gripping, witty, and somehow was able to make me shit myself laughing at the "her" plotline but also feel an unshakeable dread with how you presented the sheer dystopia of not only the product but its precedent slowly peeling us away from our humanity. still, your heart shone through and gave me hope that enough people will wake up against this poison. much thanks, eddy, wonderful video :P

[@nummynoms4525]

Eddie literally cosplaying as Theodore from HER is actually wild. 😭

[@baoquoc3710]

He is literally him fr😭😭😭

[@secret_ufo]

yeah, I thought about it too when AI said it’s been talking with other users

[@minetieplays2092]

I will always remember that movie as "the weird AI sex movie" because my dystopian literature teacher had the balls to show it to us over a few class periods even though it probably wasn't allowed due to the movie's rating lmao

[@yahkimicki236]

​@@minetieplays2092"choke me with the dead cat" frfr

[@gretavaitulevicius7907]

The 4k was worth it to have a genuine video about this headset, thank you for your service

[@Soloman_Gumball]

Did you not watch? The sponsor paid for it.

[@vladsynnes5544]

Watched this video when you first posted and just rewatched it. And guess what, that outro was still absolutely chilling, well done Eddy, well done.

[@aaaddddaaaammmm]

I like that this one is kinda artful at times, with the great soundtrack, the uncanny valley Eddy avatar, the AI conversations, and that final shot. The bulk of it is still Eddy’s trademark style and sense of humour, but I like that he’s also flexing his eye for cinema a little more in this video.

[@roguesample]

Never have we gotten so close to the episode of Black Mirror where you pedal a stationary bike all day to pay to not have to see ads on the walls of your room

[@Danblak08]

Honestly this could’ve ended at “never have we gotten so close to black mirror”

[@frikghorgan]

the stationary bikes were everybody's literal job in that episode (except for the people you saw in the ads on the walls of the room). trying to draw a parallel between the video and the specific episode you mentioned doesn't seem to really work though.

[@itdo.]

@@frikghorgan i dont understand how that illustrates using work to escape home life.

[@frikghorgan]

@@itdo. it doesn't, lol. i was a little drunk and screwed up my comment after rephrasing a couple of times, lol. i was meaning to say that you "CAN'T draw a parallel between using work to escape home-life and that episode". thanks, fixing it.

[@Drew.DrivesYT]

We're getting there. Honestly this reminded me more of that hyper-reality short film by Keiichi Matsuda than '15 Million Merits' (the Black Mirror episode in question). Once the tech gets refined and improved upon, who's to say it won't simply be a contact lens that gets installed at birth? Seems crazy now but we have to remember, a _lot_ of people willingly poisoned themselves back in 2021-22 so, anything is possible really. We're a retarded species.

[@ellahammett6765]

It’s so crazy to me that we would be willing to sacrifice so much of LIFE for the sake of convenience. Sometimes I find myself forgetting that the purpose of life is not to be comfortable or have everything be convenient. I want to live, I want to make connections, I want some things to be hard, I want to grow and learn. That’s a meaningful life. We are all seeking happiness, but we often forget that MEANING is the real source of life satisfaction, not comfort or ease.

[@ninten360]

One of the themes of Ready Player One is that improving technology without improving social conditions for people will make things worse, not better, and since social conditions seem to be getting worse, it's only gonna make people want virtual escapism like this more cause who wants to go to a movie theaters with ticket prices the way they are and have screaming kids ruin your movie? and who wants to drive 30 minutes to a park and get harassed by a homeless person and accidentally step on a dog turd? You start to understand how people begin to fall prey to wanting nothing but "convenience"

[@sari9645]

This is an interesting comment to me because as a disabled person my ultimate goal is first and foremost to be happy but also to feel comfortable and be able to do everyday tasks with ease. Though I understand that you probably weren’t thinking of disabled folks when you wrote this comment 😅

[@FileCode1459]

@@sari9645 in the mood for a nice conversation, i'm not disabled, but i think it's a little bit on the same principle as if there was a person who did EVERYTHING for you just because you're disabled, instead of allowing you to make your own choices and do what you can do by yourself. i suppose it would be sort of a similar feeling, just having all this technology spoon-feeding you "life" instead of you going out and getting it yourself (as much as you can)

[@Ahnock]

​@@ninten360i mean, there are *some* benefits and positives to this stuff. being able to watch a movie in a virtual theater with your friends or family who are all across the globe or sick or something is always one of the things i can point to as being a nice convenience. but absolutely, aside from making the connectivity better between people you wouldn't be able to see in person anyways, i agree with the rest.

[@padawansound6423]

​​@@Ahnock Yeah, but they don't want you to use this technology for special occasions. They want you to use it all the time. The technology itself isn't necessarily the problem, it's the intent, which informs the design, UI, etc.

[@ng65gaming]

Something I find quite funny is that over the first month everyone was calling this the future of tech as we know it, and then after that it was entirely forgotten and we all moved on with life

[@Paddlegoober]

Eddy and Casey described dissociation pretty well. As someone that can’t turn off their dissociation, it’s scary to see that there’s people actually want that

[@valartman2671]

Yeah, I get you. There's this unattainable dream of mine to feel one day that I exist and there is actual life around me, like I'm no longer mentally ill. It's strange people even entertain the idea of constant disassociation like this

[@Sasu123456789x1]

That's what I thought too

[@None-Trick_Pony]

I get dissociation when I don't sleep all night, and, quite frankly, it's probably only second to a depressive state in terms of worst feelings I can think of. You feel like you're living without living, doing without doing, enjoying without enjoying. I'm with you; it's miserable. I'm lucky in that for me it has an obvious cause avoidable by taking my sleep meds. That anyone would actually want to feel it without any spiritual purpose is baffling.