The Most Controversial Tech Review Happened...

hello guys and gals me mudahar and today

we got to talk about review channels now

to understand ladies and gentlemen I

don't watch a lot of tech review stuff

because to be honest with you most of

the technology that comes out these days

doesn't entirely interest me okay unless

you got some new graphic card coming out

then I get really excited one of my

favorite channels is digital Foundry CU

I'm a huge nerd for video game Graphics

okay I like to know what what level of

dlss FSR frame Generation stuff is kind

of going W Buck Wild but when it comes

smartphone reviews I really don't care

for me a cell phone is a device that you

literally browse the internet you know

send a message and watch your videos

okay that's all that matters to me I

don't care about having the most

up-to-date processor nor do I care about

playing Resident Evil 4 remake on a

phone okay at the end of the day I use

three simple tasks if I could go back to

Nokia 3300s I probably would because

honestly I don't really use my

smartphone for much else now one tech

review channel that we all know on this

platform is mares brownley okay not

marass brownley I'm watching You Will

Smith IR robot 2 better be a thing

before I die but ladies and gentlemen

mares brownley is somebody that's been

on this platform for a long time 18

million something subscribers and one of

my favorite videos was when he had the

Escobar fault phone showing that Tech

reviewers can sometimes cross into the

path of violent drug cartels or ex

violent drug cartels in this day and age

wild stuff indeed watch that video

absolutely one of the best reviews on

the platform now he made a video review

where he talked about something known as

the worst product I've ever reviewed for

now okay now of course that's a pretty

scathing title from somebody whose job

it is to review technology now inside

this video mares brownley reviews this

pin this uh this pin known as The Humane

AI pin now you might be wondering w muda

what is so wild about the Humane AI pin

to give you an idea I'm going to show

you their website real quick

and to understand this is the product

right here it's literally something you

wear on your actual like shirt okay

whatever it is now it's got a bit of a

camera array going on it is basically an

AI powered pin that allows you to like

look at the world around you okay so

according to them it is an AI digital

assistant on call a bunch of them

actually it's a researcher interpreter

photographer communicator and apparently

a DJ as if you needed all of that around

you at any given moment soon a

assistants like a nutritionist Shopper

Navigator and more will join your team

making your work in life feel even

easier now Humane incorporation is not a

new new organization it's been around

since

2018 and according to this situation

they've actually raised over $200

million and they've got some pretty big

investors you've got Microsoft you've

got Qualcomm you've got big names like

Sam Alman you've got Partnerships with

open AI this is something that was I

guess poised to be one of the biggest AI

wearable tools imaginable until of

course actual Tech reviewers got their

[ __ ] hands on it now when it comes to

reviews ladies and gentlemen you should

be honest okay now if this if this like

if this uh glass of yellow fluid I

bought at the at the at the fast food

place tasted like piss I would tell you

it tasted like piss all right simply

because if you decide to go to a Tim

Hortons and buy this exact product and

it tasted like dog water then honestly

my endorsement would bring pretty Hol

you'd never trust me again okay we

wouldn't have that trust relationship

and same thing with channels like

Marques okay when he makes a tech review

he's going to be honest about it if the

product is dog [ __ ] then it's his right

to say the product is bad as long as he

provides an ample amount of information

to supplement that which he did for 25

minutes so I'm going to play a clip that

was shared around now the last day I saw

Bloods be yapping about this [ __ ] going

I find it distasteful almost unethical

to say this when you have 18 million

subscribers hard to explain why but with

great reach comes great

responsibility okay Uncle Ben chill the

[ __ ] out it's a tech review dog what are

you what's what's going on potentially

killing someone else's na project reeks

of carelessness first Do no harm now of

course to remind you human AI once again

rais 200 million something dollars okay

it's not like there's dummies behind

this now obviously if you look at their

product once again ladies and gentlemen

it's an AI pin imagine having something

like Siri or Google Now or any of these

you know goo voice AI products always on

your body at any given moment okay how

is using a device like this any

different than pointing the back end of

a smartphone at any device and asking an

AI to scan things for you in fact

according to maris's own video he

actually showed how stupid this product

in a way was watch this clip

look and tell me what this

is or I'll just do this I

guess

ah it's a cyber truck the photo is of a

cyber truck an electric pickup truck

produced by

Tesla yep now if you're going to have a

digital assistant on your pocket you

probably should be faster than the

person who can whip out their cell phone

themselves and do the same thing going

on see what happened with this device

over here according to maris's like

actual showcase was it used the onboard

camera and actually looked in front and

it said oh that's a car right there okay

but in the time it took for the AI the

hardware to phone back to the AI and

then get the answer in that amount of

time Mars just pointed a camera use the

Google AI and basically determine the

answer right there so again it shows

that buying a device like this this is

ultimately meaningless okay if you can

just do the exact same thing anyways and

you might be like well muda what if it's

like a $50 device no no no no no no the

starting price on this bad boy is $700

Us by the way okay that involves the AI

pin the battery booster the charge pad

the USBC everything imaginable and of

course you get unlimited AI queries Talk

Text data and cloud storage you might be

like whoa 700 bucks for that oo that's

sounds kind of weird muda but maybe it

pays for it back hold on it also needs a

subscription service okay so to use the

AI which I assume it's probably like a

licensed chat GPT kind of thing going

right because here's the thing it's not

locally processing anything as far as my

understanding goes according to maris's

own review it had to look at a at a

cyber truck take a photo of it send that

information back home all right to a

server that server process it then sends

back the result results to this device

it's not like it's locally processing

anything so this subscription costs $24

a month okay that's before taxes and

[ __ ] fees okay so may I remind you

guys not all products deserve to succeed

okay this is a dumb product from the

get-go the only use case scenario I

actually see out of this product is one

thing one thing only old people see

unless you're like an old person where

like your eyes are going out or maybe

not everyone is there for for you at

every given moment and the world is

evolving around you having a little pin

that autoc captures a photo and relays

information in real time like that is

cool the barrier of Entry to AI is

reduced but see that's the only use case

right there Maris is not collecting

Social Security checks as far as my

knowledge goes neither are most people

watching any of our channels so for us

looking at a product like this it holds

no actual weight to it unless this was

like Life Alert AI okay then the whole

story would be different but see this is

a dumb product simple through and

through that's the whole story I want to

bring back for you now I guess the

problem with blood yapping over here is

why didn't you use the same

sensationalist title on Twitter to be

honest the YouTube title was clickbait

and in reality I don't really agree the

YouTube title was clickbait the man

believes this is the worst product

they've ever reviewed okay simple as

that lots of people use these titles I

use these titles like in the worlds of

SpongeBob they're kind of like sentence

enhancers I'm s sorry that in some

reality obviously with sites like

YouTube or any of these social media

websites a lot of the part of making a

video is The Branding itself is the

actual like first glance that somebody

takes in a search engine unfortunately

clickbait is kind of a requirement for a

lot of channels every channel does this

okay lonus mares everyone covers it to

an extent clickbait to me is only bad if

the actual like focus and core of the

video has literally nothing to do with

the title and the thumbnail itself which

yes that deserves to be called out and

honestly according to YouTube and many

platforms to's that gets taken down for

being misleading and in some cases spam

as well so yeah this is again if if the

title and thumbnail was bad he backed it

up with 25 minutes of actual review

footage on why it was bad now because of

this scathing review there's been a bit

of fears that maybe the company could go

bankrupt and to be honest with you that

is really the fault of the actual

investors who decided to put money into

a company like this because again if you

saw the writing on the wall you would be

able to tell that an AI pin can easily

be replaced by literally any smartphone

in the market in the next few months

anyways if they decide to update and add

the same levels of artificial

intelligence to their device and it's

not really the responsibility of a

YouTube reviewer or anybody to give

something a positive review if you if

your product is [ __ ] it will be

reflected in the market it's as simple

as that not everything that has millions

of dollars behind it needs to succeed

let's be honest now obviously that

Humane AI pin threw me down a little bit

of a rabbit hole myself because I wanted

to see just how many of these devices

were coming out and of course speaking

of rabbit holes uh there's the rabbit R1

and again it's another one of these like

pin devices that you kind of have like a

camera it's all AI powered meaning that

it's a small little lightweight device

it captures uh you know sort of a query

sends it back to a server and comes back

to you as far as my knowledge goes which

is why a lot of these devices require

Wi-Fi and again most importantly

cellular functionality so again you look

at a lot of these right like these the

the functionalities and it's designed to

search uh play music ride share for

instance use generative Ai and of course

possibly for traveling things like

ticketing and again it also learns so

maybe it can do something Advanced later

on one of the things that somebody had

brought up on the Reddit was literally

could it be used for something like

ubering for instance so instead of

whipping out aell phone you type in a

location and then you Uber it right like

you open the Uber app you type in the

address you book The Thing what this

apparently can do is you ask it give me

the cheapest Uber or ride share to like

location a and I guess it'll do

everything for you which sounds really

neat on paper but again it's one of

those things where I don't think most

people would choose to purchase a device

solely for that digital AI assistant

okay I don't think it's used that much

now to be honest with you these devices

are kind of of like meaningless because

ultimately it's not as if Apple Google

Microsoft or any of these companies that

manufacture smartphones and smart

tablets and computer devices aren't

going to shoehorn AI in it anyways we're

literally I'd say a year an iOS upgrade

away before Apple gets Siri a massive AI

update meaning that at one point

whatever these devices are capable of

doing your Apple iPhone or your Apple

watch will soon do for you anyways and

those devices have a lot more

functionality than a goddamn AI pin

anyway same with Google same with anyone

what Marquees showed you with his camera

and taking a photo of the cybertruck is

partially one of the reasons why I don't

even have things like an Amazon Alexa or

a Google Voice a I value privacy but

also why would I choose to get a

microphone inside my house for something

that I could hold one button down on my

phone and just ask anyways these are

things some devices some products just

don't deserve to even have buyers they

are pointless products to begin with and

I'm sick and tired of sitting here and

pretending that we have to be nice to

every CEO and [ __ ] startup imaginable

sometimes your product is [ __ ] stupid

and if the audience reviews it as stupid

and the audience doesn't buy it that's

just that's just the market correcting

itself brother God damn now even reading

an actual like report from the Forbes

they actually had a discussed a research

paper from Cornell University and apple

in regards to a multimodal llm so again

a or a large action model and a lot of

this AI stuff is slowly being talked

about when it comes to Apple and again

it's already a part of a lot of android

devices anyway so Google has it from

their end and their services and this

could benefit like AI powered Siri

devices in the future so again it's only

a matter of time before these

smartphones that are already in your

hands do the exact same thing roughly as

these AI pens or these wearable AI agent

or assistants you know become now of

course mares threw himself into some

more hot water with those reviews which

actually makes me a mares viewer because

this is not one that I knew about this

is like a a mind this is a mind-blowing

situation so there's a car brand known

as Fisker okay and I actually what I I I

believe I even put like money down to

buy one of these because I thought they

were interesting looking cars until I

went to a showroom in um California and

I sat in one of these and I was like

whoa this thing is not that great for

the price first off it's got this shitty

solar roof design which is like you gain

maybe 5 miles a month in your car's

range but your car looks like an entire

solar roof it's literally there's no

point of having a moon roof if anything

the other reality of it is is when you

buy a car for thousands upon thousands

of dollars the onboard software should

not be laggy okay my experience the demo

showcase was laggy and that was one of

the reasons why I said whoa that is that

that that is a bullet Dodge so to speak

right godamn now of course this car is

in a pretty scary situation because

they've been going through a crap ton of

layoffs at the beginning of this year

apparently they were laying off 15% of

its Workforce and they actually warned

investors that they is a substantial

doubt it will have enough cash to make

it through

2024 so yeah it's not looking too good

for this company and I looked into why

they weren't doing too good and a lot of

people said that maris's review a month

ago which which Got 5 million views

apparently costus some real Schism in

fact Fisker even knew about this review

coming out and uh they were trying to

tell him wait for a software update to

which Maris is like I ain't waiting

[ __ ] I'm reviewing this thing as it is

and I watched this review as well and it

wasn't even that scathingly bad if

anything he was very critical of the

vehicle as he should be anyways

especially when you're reviewing a

product like I said when you are a

reviewer on the internet your only

relationship is between you and the

viewer and the trust you have between

them it's not between companies if they

were then you're not necessarily an

online personality you're just another

advertising Wing okay this is why if we

ever get a product here right like I

have an apple Vision review yes it's

coming I'm just not going to review it

like every person on the internet who

used it for 20 minutes and it's like wow

this thing is crazy I want to actually

use it for like over a month to get an

actual use case out of it get some

footage and talk about it pretty

extensively because do have a passion

for covering some of these things

especially VR stuff [ __ ] I used to sleep

in Minecraft for crying out loud so yeah

these are things that are important to

me and when covering it you have to

think about being honest because

ultimately it's the ethical thing to do

but if you are obviously reviewing

products for the audience you don't want

your audience to think this guy's just

going to shill every single product that

comes their way no if you're dishonest

people will not watch you so what's more

important even financially if you think

about it being honest and having a a

sizable fan base or getting a bag from

one company that may not even exist at

the end of the year so what's wild about

this situation with Fisker is even

before this review came out what I saw

was one of their Engineers who contacted

one of the people who loaned their car

over to Maris for this review and this

phone call 6 minutes of it we're not

going to watch it all but it is actually

insane listen to some of it good morning

George how are you sir good good who's

this

um my name is Russ Russ Whit I work for

FIS oh

okay how can I help

you well can I pull your fingernails out

and as part of an inquisition I've got

to ask you a couple of questions if you

don't mind no problem what's going

on so you sold or how many fiskers have

you bought so far so at this moment in

time our protagonist realizes oh [ __ ]

I'm getting a call from what like one of

the head field Engineers not looking too

good so then they start to basically

press this guy for information about

mares so listen to this it gets even

Wilder so you sold or how many fiskers

have you buy be appropriate for you to

share the vins with

me uh so we have a customer who we

believe bought a car from who's blowing

up social media and we're trying to

track him that's MK that's he's a famous

guy it's MK hbd what what's going on

um he's blowing up social media he's got

all the Senior Management from G Fisker

down because he's talking crap on the

Fisker right bro this guy's just like

blood dude okay you know if you're a

tech reviewer you can only strive to be

big enough so that the company you're

actually criticizing watches your video

in the [ __ ] boardroom it's insane

that they're trying to press this guy

for information about it when in reality

I watched all that review even the

follow-up that he made like a few days

ago and it was about honest as you can

get it was a vehicle that honestly was

missing the mark in a million places and

instead of shooting the messenger and

thinking damn we should be mindful of

these big giant CEOs in these companies

and your feelings now in reality if you

make a crappy product and people get

their hands on it I would rather watch a

tech reviewer that actually criticized

the product again it doesn't have to be

overly negative or overly positive just

honesty is all you ever want right like

for instance if I buy like a graphics

card which I do every right whenever

they release new stuff I'm not going to

buy one of the rules that I have when I

buy products is it can't be a sponsorhip

right like for instance the Apple Vision

Pro right like the headset uh we would

never have accepted it had it come from

Apple one of the rules that I have

usually with any of these sponsorships

and the very rare exceptions uh in the

sense that you know we actually have to

get a product from the company because

maybe it's not released uh is spend your

own money everything that I've ever

bought for this channel has been a

financial detriment to me okay if I buy

a RTX 490 if I buy the Apple Vision Pro

it's money that goes out of my pocket

it's money that in a lot of cases I

really am not even able to properly

write off either too just because of the

complexities of tax law and how much

that product can be used but it's not

about getting the money back or doing

anything in that nature it's the matter

of taking the same hit that you take in

buying a product and I personally

believe your perception of a product is

also judged by how much it financially

hurs hurt you right like if I got an

apple Vision Pro for free I would put

that headset on and say wow this thing

looks [ __ ] amazing it's great but now

that I paid thousands of dollars for it

almost five grand Canadian a little over

I can sit down and say yeah this thing

looks good for the price of a used car

so yeah it's a situation where obviously

I prefer honesty and watching this whole

thing go down has given me a lot of

respect for Maris and any Tech reviewer

in that space that chooses to keep their

integrity versus their relationship with

some of these Brands and I can

understand and wanting to keep a

relationship obviously if you're on a

blacklist for gaming or Tech then you

miss out on day one views you miss out

on the algorithms you miss out on being

a part of that inner circle that gets

access to talk about stuff sometimes

weeks in advance but if that's what

separates you from being an advertising

arm or a real personality then sometimes

I think no matter what the loss is it's

worth taking just for the relationship

you have with the fans but that said

ladies and gentlemen this is me mudahar

and yeah it's been a while last couple

days that I've been watching it man

never could imagine tech reviews would

piss off big Silicon Valley this hard

but yeah ladies and gentlemen if you

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