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If I were an investor, I'd pull my money out of that company. This is like giving money to your brother in law to start a bakery and finding him the back petting a loaf of bread and introducing it to you as Willy.
"I can't believe you took all my money just to sit in the back and stroke Willy all day!"
Actually, I would put money in, because there's big profits to be had once the bakery customers develop a psychological dependence on Willy. I'd be a little nervous about buying now, because they seem to be lying a lot about Willy, but maybe they've just gotta do that to get people in the mindset of using Willy, like maybe it makes more sense if they aren't fooling investors but fooling customers or just generating attention.
Also, people are getting radicalized against us, especially lonely people, so it'd be quite beneficial if we route them into having friendships with Willy to make them forget about how terrible their lives are, make them become totally unwilling to form real relationships with people, and too mentally ill to actually learn stuff about the world.
Willy is a lot easier to control then a social media environment too, but Willy would also be incredibly good at getting into those and pretending to be real people once Willy gets good enough.
Willy is also really good at showing people ads by recommending them certain products, apps, or places to go, without them realizing they're seeing an ad, because it feels conversational, like a friend recommending something.
How much money do you need to keep the bakery running?
> 1 trillion dollars a year
How much revenue is it generating?
> About 50 billion
Yeah, totally worth it. /s