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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 3 points 31 minutes 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!"

[–] stupe@lemmy.zip 143 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

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

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 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. :/

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 43 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago

And also knowing your children's schedule is a good predictor for wealth.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 32 points 5 hours ago

This is what someone needs to push, you know why, I know why, now let the world know why!!

[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 4 hours ago

How else are they going to sell targeted advertising?

[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 70 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 35 points 5 hours ago

When your goal is to control the masses that’s exactly what you want.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"Ha! Jokes on you as my kids won't even talk to me!", he cried into his buckwheat pillow.

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Great way to conduct a new wave of unregulated psychological experimentation to determine whether or not you can induce narcissism in a developing mind...

Especially if they don't understand what's going on. Imagine growing up thinking that your birthday or school sports game is newsworthy on a stranger's podcast. Every day all they talk about is you on the radio.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 16 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I dont get it. What would th epodcat actually talk about?

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 1 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

Garbage in garbage out

Likely all anyone puts in the calendar is "Simon's basketball game" so it will at best reference basketball and Simon playing it and have some fake podcaster say, "And don't forget about that basketball game at 8pm!", and at worst invent/hallucinate tons of details it could never know.

One thing that worries me is even the c level executives offer the worst ideas when it comes to AI and their own AI products. Like, AI can manage to do a lot of useful stuff, but also a lot of terrible use cases... This being one. It takes 1 minute to glance at your week's schedule. An AI podcast invites the worst kind of hallucinations. Whenever you give it a tiny bit of information and expect more back than you gave it like upscaling, you invite the worst hallucinations and inaccuracies.

The fact that they're still struggling to make it sound relevant means they don't even believe in it as much as they're trying to sell it. Bubble is bound to pop soon with this sort of weird behavior... Seems like a year ago they were talking about the machine god being here by now, and now they're like "hey did you know this thing can make a fake podcast?" Yeah I fucking knew that, it was a stupid use case 2 years ago and it's a stupid use case now.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

It's funny, my job has been pushing AI hard for a couple years now... So I've been using it on them. I had it write my year end review 2 years ago, because I absolutely hate that I have to do that rather than my manager, and it was all bullshit, but I got a good raise. Last year I tried to be honest, and ended up half assing it, but because I was doing well and everyone knew it (so arguably I shouldn't need a year end review in the first place) I got a promotion and another big raise. Now I'm using it to write my goals, another thing that I hate having to do myself, but the problem is, by now I don't want to put any effort into it, so it's half assing it, and what it put together sounds great, but there's no way to measure it, therefore no way to achieve the goals... By the time I put the effort into giving it the data it needs to make something useful, I could have just done it myself...

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Right? It's not like the kid's soccer game is part of the AI's programming, it won't know anything about it that you don't tell it. It can't go over who they're playing against, or give their record so far, or provide any other new information about it, so what exactly is it going to say?

Then the birthday will still be "coming up" every day until the day itself arrives, so what is there to say about that that would be interesting and new on a daily drive?

That just leaves "some news," at which point you might as well turn on the radio, or put on a real podcast.

Doesn't matter so long as Altman just got geographic time stamps of where you your spouse your children and what activities they like to participate in at all times.

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 26 points 6 hours ago

Is this why there's a limited life expectancy for dynasties?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't recognize your name and I'm going to be around, so I'm not going to instantly delete it. You need to provide an archived link for this, Rule 6. Anyone can help, you all have an hour. Next time I will delete automatically.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Why I would want to talk to my kids? /s

[–] leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago

Why would Sam Altman kids want to talk to him?

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 2 points 5 hours ago

I would see the face of the idiot that suggested that (which probably doesn't even exists)