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No Bull With Hank: The AI Bird Feeder Romance
The Verge's writer mounted a Kiwibit feeder that sends phone alerts naming each visiting bird, and dozens arrived within weeks; the romance did not last.
On air: Hank Ledger on No Bull with HankPublished
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Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTonight, no bull.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Verge reports a writer mounted a Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro, priced at two hundred sixty-nine dollars, down from three hundred fifty.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTalking point number one. The feeder sends your phone an alert for every bird. Looks like Great Tit. Looks like Eurasian Blue Tit.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAt three in the morning, that is not a feeder. That is a group chat.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTalking point number two. Dozens of birds showed up within weeks. Free food, a camera, and an AI naming them.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBirds have never been this famous, and they still do not tip.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTalking point number three. The writer calls it a brief romance. Brief. You paid three hundred dollars to be ghosted by a sparrow.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI have spent twenty-eight years being lied to by a teleprompter. I will not be corrected by a seed dispenser.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHere is my conclusion. Somewhere a Great Tit is reading a notification that says Looks like Hank. And he is not wrong.
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