Josh was at the end of his rope when he turned to ChatGPT for help with a parenting quandary. The 40-year-old father of two had been listening to his “super loquacious” four-year-old talk about Thomas the Tank Engine for 45 minutes, and he was feeling overwhelmed.
“He was not done telling the story that he wanted to tell, and I needed to do my chores, so I let him have the phone,” recalled Josh, who lives in north-west Ohio. “I thought he would finish the story and the phone would turn off.”
But when Josh returned to the living room two hours later, he found his child still happily chatting away with ChatGPT in voice mode. “The transcript is over 10k words long,” he confessed in a sheepish Reddit post. “My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
Was not expecting to get another reason to dislike Grimes specifically when going into this article.
But man, we’re so fucking cooked.
We already have a problem with people acting online like they don’t understand that they’re interacting with real people and we’re bringing chat bots into it? The kids growing up using this shit now are so fucked.
If I have a kid they’re not getting a damn phone or a tablet until they’re in their teens. They’ll have access to plenty of tech beyond that, they don’t need that shit that young.
Kids that grow up with shit that parent are freaking out about, tend to handle and understand shit much better than said parent will.