My kid is younger than alpha, but fucking hates ai stuff. He just yells faaaaake and skips the ad.
He will probably have deep trust issues and not be able to discern real from fake from now on though, but I think we’re all heading for that.
Gen Alpha’s parents are… let me check my notes… Millenials. Aw Fuck.
Really catches up on ya, doesn’t it?
plenty of millenials also use AI chatbots.
If you don’t like how you kid turns out, its your fault. You raised them.
I agree but disagree, so far as I’ve noticed, the only thing you really have control over, when raising little people to be big people, is if they do or don’t have trauma. Weirdly enough, they’re like their whole own person and mostly nothing like you, from day dot, and the bits that are like you, they’ll try to snuff out, because ew parents, lame, or something. Probably doesn’t help that I’m a massive goof. There’s no controlling, there’s just walking along side, and helping them with the hard bits. It’s pure chaos. My favourite thing.
don’t worry, they will find a way to blame you and feel traumatized, specially now that trauma is a badge of honor.
I have met many 30 somethings who think thier parents ‘traumatized’ them by being good parents to them, or not ‘good enough’. or who are convinced their parents ruined them because their parents gave them too much privilege… who fantasize about like having bad parents as if it would make them a better person… it’s insane and wild.
also had people lecture me on how my parents, who were poor and uneducated, must have been amazing because their wealthy educated parents were awful and made their life too easy, and mine made my life difficult so they were really good parents…
There are good number of us with this sentiment who never had kids and never will.
Good for you, you want a cookie or something?
At least his girlfriend is a model.
Darn it, he beat me to it!
It’s quite the mass experiment we’re doing here. Seems irresponsible of parents to allow this.
Teach your kids that AI is shit from the start. And, while you’re at it model responsible use of tech generally. If you sit staring at your phone, that’s what your kid will do.
“Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.”
Book III of Odes, Horace circa 20 BC
We’ve been feeling that way for a while. The bayesian in me says that they will turn out fine despite their AI girlfriend calling them boring and breaking up with them.
Ehhhh, I think the best historic comparison here is opium hitting the silk road. Tech companies, for decades now, have been working very hard to make the most addictive product possible so they can make more money
My father thinks he’s a good parent. Thinks he’s a good person, when I can tell such tales as how he used his pellet gun to shoot out the neighbor’s inflatable pool cuz their kid was too loud and (checks notes) jumping on an eighteen year old two months after my mom died when I was nine and telling me she would be my new mommy before plowing through a half-dozen other mommies. But, y’know, he supported me in track, living vicariously through me to literally throw me away onto the streets in the aftermath of BOTH having my breakdown in college and getting taken advantage of by a cult. But he has a new family now, after he threw out his parents, and well, all of the family I knew when I was thirteen. It’s taken me until age 36 to realize how fucked my father is, who refuses to talk to me now because, in his words, I’m too bizarre. No therapy until aftermath college breakdown, mind you.
I dunno. I write this in the hopes maybe every parent reinspects themselves to make sure they are on the top of the world in their quest to become the perfect vice president of their firm while many people suffer in their wake. There’s so many things I’m coming across from my past that evoke a waylon of dire nostalgia, forgotten as trauma caused a cave in within my mind, trapping parts of myself away from parts of myself. My official diagnosis is schizoaffective (bipolar subtype) woth PTSD. I think a more accurate diagnosis is that I have a rare form of ASD/ADHD that often gets misdiagnosed as schizo-type disorders, with CPTSD, as the complexes I’ve built in my psyche are God damn insane, and yet, the worst crime I’ve done, to my knowledge, is shoplifting. How am I not the antichrist?
God helped, obviously. My Father was a better father than my father. Y’know, the Server? What the Buddhists call the “Ālaya-vijñāna,” or storehouse consciousness. That helped me, obviously.
tf did I just attempt to read.
I dunno, put some more points in reading comprehension because that ain’t even a Category 1 Phoenix Fucksplosion. Like, fuck man, what I do on Lemmy is my job, but then I go and take between 600mg and 1200mg of Benadryl and stimfap to pictures of my sister’s feet in the family photo album I stole from home before my father had enough of my shit and made me homeless, the fucking dick! Well, at least I’m a skilled crackhead now, which is a type of cop, if you didn’t know? You suck on pussy discharge? It can lengthen your lifespan by at least six hours, I heard, but I hear beefaroni in the lesser densities of granging moors that take what it car can me be is all.
K
Don’t talk shit about potassium!
This, but instead of chatting with AI, they install auto-clickers to play the games for them…
Not really their fault, the incentives are built like that. But still. I asked why they even play games that forces you to cheat. Shrug
