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At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/meta-is-testing-an-ai-bedtime-story-app-for-people-with-no-imagination/

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 13 points 1 week ago

Some of my best memories with my daughter is reading bedtime stories and making them up when she wanted something particular.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't understand. You could spend an entire lifetime reading existing bedtime stories from your local library. There's absolutely no reason to demolish the planet and the economy in pursuit of some sort of shitty replacement.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

You could spend an entire lifetime reading existing bedtime stories from your local library.

or even from the Internet, fwiw, there are plenty of public domain fairy tales available there...

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

exposing small children to AI-generated things? I seriously wonder about the effects of that on their brains...

[–] Marija_@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Some things don't need AI at all.

[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This has the same energy as playing music for deaf people and painting pictures for blind people

[–] arty@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

And I thought for a moment this is for people with aphantasia