Caitlin Johnstone reports:
Let's Stay Human
There’s a creepy tweet going around by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recommending that parents feed their kids’ interests and schedules into ChatGPT so it can generate a daily custom-made bot podcast to listen to on their morning drive to school.
First parents handed over their children to social media and look how well that went - kids living in online chats and conditioned to porn.
Now AI wants to get in on the surrogate parenting gig.
It's not hard to see where this is going.
Podcast content skewed to suit the current AI company/government agenda.
Advertising messages creeping in to get kids used to buying everything online as promoted by the AI's 'partners'.
Parent-child conversations dwindling especially if parent don't listen to the same podcast as their kids or can't relate.
Lives ordered around AI-generated, personalized 'channels', dumbing everyone down as we move steadily into the world of Orwell's newspeak.
The sad thing is these AI podcasts will gradually creep in and condition a new generation of parents to this AI-driven behaviour pattern.
It will begin with parents and it will continue with schools as an AI-led curriculum, AI marking and AI exam invigilation begins to take hold.
If books survive they will only survive if they are in an AI's preferred library, the ultimate celebrity book club since it will reach millions of children.
Children will live in social media, imagine only via AI-curated podcasts, view the world through AI-enabled glasses and play with their AI robot pets.
Parents optional.
What a future.