> Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem?

For people with memory issues, products like this can be life changing.

On a second note, imagine a world where everyone has perfect memory recall. The concept of "recording" someone is useless, as everyone around a conversation (e.g. sitting at the next table at a cafe) would be a 100% reliable witness to the conversation.

Obviously we would not fault someone for taking steps to train their memory to be better, so why fault them for using electronics to improve the limits of biology?

If you won't remember important conversations correctly (which you will not, given that your memory is garbage), or you can't distinguish words very well it is very useless to have a fallback recording and a transcript. For people who are generally hard of hearing it's also very useful.

I guess if you're very good at remembering things and have no disabilities, the use-cases are only bad. That said, we shouldn't let assholes fuck things up.

It is a product. It is something people will buy. Lots of people just don't care about privacy that much, and the privacy risk factors with this are potentially lower than for other things people use with roughly the same level of "realness".

It seems like an ideal way to get shunned from society.

I’d also wonder about the legal situation; lots of places have laws against the covert recording of phone conversations, but I’m less sure about in-person private conversations.