Bonus: Alex Hirsch is the creator of Gravity Falls

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    6 hours ago

    I mean atleast show the effort to search actual podcasts that might interest your kid rather than having chatgpt produce made-up ones. But then searching doesn’t burn as many tokens and it is Sam Altman who is suggesting this lol.

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    11 hours ago

    On the instant I knew this was a satire.

    Then I looked who the OP was.

    Fucking can’t make this shit up.

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    4 hours ago

    I agree with the sentiment, I really do. However, do yall have kids? Remembering their friend’s birthdays and knowing their bizarrely inconsistent schedule is not what they are talking about in the car. Fortnight, bike rides, complaints about tests? All of that - absolutely. The after school science fair? LoTR day at the library? Basketball Practice meets at 6:00 tonight instead of 7:30 because the coaches other kid has a karate exhibition? Exactly none of is coming up.

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      6 hours ago

      This is the sort of weird, performative rage from the Left that helps no one and selfishly serves only themselves.

      Quoting it because this is the most surreal take I ever heard.

      “Hey y’all these leftists and their… Talking to the kids! Amirite?!”

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        5 hours ago

        Furthermore, nothing about the OP was political — unless being an attentive parent is divisive and left wing.

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    17 hours ago

    chatgpt solving reptilian problems that nobody has

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    20 hours ago

    When I first read this I didn’t think anything of it cause I thought it was some rando

    Now I’m realizing it’s Sam Altman 😭

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    15 hours ago

    These people really have no moat.

    This is a totally shit feature but, but you could do this with Qwen3-tts.

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      Their moat was supposed to be overwhelming compute, which they said was a necessity to produce frontier models and that only an American monopoly could produce. Three years later it’s not a monopoly but an oligopoly, the diminishing returns on compute are devastating, and China is humiliating them with models that aren’t really even focused on the English language.

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    Why is he so interested in having people upload schedules of what their kids are doing?

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      7 hours ago

      He’s kind of the most evil business man ever, because:

      • he believes/knows climate change to be real
      • he understands that society reducing its energy consumption has the power to reduce or reverse climate change
      • nonetheless, Sam Altman sells a product that does almost nothing, (certainly doesn’t do what it says on the tin very well)
      • and is relying on everyone massively increasing their energy consumption to power the roll-out of this.
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      Avoiding the obvious reference to fiddling, I think these tech companies need kids to be as reliant and addicted to their products as possible. TikTok and Youtube were the trailblazers in the electronic addiction economy.

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        funny thing is the techbros own kids are shielded away fromthe brainrot, they made sure they go to montiserri private school away from tech. they need future customers, not thier own kids, which would have thier own agency.

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      Adults are stubborn and set in their ways. Kids are easier to mould to new ideas.

      If they can get the kids hooked on AI tools, they’ll run with it until they’re old enough to be making the decisions and by then they’ll want the tools they’ve grown up using: AI.

      It’s a marketing strategy, and an effective one at that.

      That, and Altmans probably got a comfortable seat on the Epstein list.

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      22 hours ago

      Because they want the next generations to be as completely addicted to and reliant on their product for everything as possible. And because he’s rich, and has rich friends, so… you know. :/

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      The actual, boring answer is because family calendars can get complicated quickly and then ore people are involved and updating them the easier it is to miss something. So the use case of “will help you keep track of what the fuck is going on” is a legitimate advertising angle.

      In an absurd sense, it’s similar to the “oops, we forgot to put the safeties on and our super clever bot totally autonomously did something insanely sophisticated. Don’t worry, we fixed it though”. Anything sophisticated enough to stalk and harass a journalist is more than capable of planning a meeting.

      Anything capable of putting together a podcast about everything going on is more than capable of actually sending you a reliable reminder for a doctor’s appointment for your second kid that you weren’t told about, or letting you know that you’re not free Wednesday at 1 when talking with the repair person.

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        I have two young kids, complicated health and a demanding international job. A simple calendar app is more than adequate. No “intelligence” required. And why is your bot listening in to your discussion with the repair person, did you ask their permission first? What else is it listening to, and who is profiting off that information?

        I get that it’s a fun toy, but you really have some big blind spots to paint this stuff as acceptable, let alone desirable.

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          Oh, I didn’t say it was acceptable or desirable. I guess that’s why the downvotes.

          I think that’s what they’re advertising, as opposed to the people who think it’s a deep plot to hook kids or something.

          The free shared group calendar that comes with my stuff is all I use for a similar setup. Only thing I wish it had was a better ability to notify me if someone else added an event, since I regularly have conversations with contractors or whatever where I say anytime should be fine, and then immediately have to backpedal when checking the calendar.

          But for clarification, I don’t want what I described and I don’t think they can actually do most if any of what they imply with these backhanded advertisments.
          I just think “manage the schedules of a busy family” is one of the most tried “wholesome” advertising gambits.

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    1 day ago

    Imagine sitting around all day thinking of every way to stop people from thinking for themselves 🤯

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    21 hours ago

    “super cool life hack… If your kids are disappointing because you’re in constant fear of being found out to be a fraud, with your kids being walking reminders of your failed life, just stop talking to your kids. Tell my lying machine that IT is your kid now, and it won’t judge you!”