Bonus: Alex Hirsch is the creator of Gravity Falls

    • Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pub
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Calling something out to be the plot of a fictional television series inside of a fictional universe and television series is wild stuff.

  • guitarfosec@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    19 hours ago

    Anyone who would willingly listen to an AI-generated podcast is a person I have zero interest in ever interacting with. I feel like once you learn someone is actually doing that, a serious intervention is required.

  • Ike@lemmy.zip
    2541·
    3 days ago

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

    • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      2 days 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.
    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
      109·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        9·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      45·
      3 days 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.

    • Abyssian@lemmy.world
      25·
      3 days 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. :/

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
      117·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 days ago

          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.

    • nieminen@lemmy.world
      5·
      20 hours ago

      There are versions of these machine learning and statistical programs that are making headway in all sorts of medical research. That was, and is still happening.

      I am starting to think that this whole ai push, along with making all these companies insane amounts of money at the cost of regular folks, is ultimately to further attack the human intelligence. The number of people I know personally and secondhand that let chatgpt make all their decisions, even the simplest ones. And they’ll use it as a truth source, treat it like a person (it’s not even anything close to approaching intelligence). It’s going to go poorly for us as a whole.

  • ddplf@szmer.info
    21·
    2 days ago

    On the instant I knew this was a satire.

    Then I looked who the OP was.

    Fucking can’t make this shit up.

  • ol_capt_joe@piefed.eeEnglish
    109·
    3 days ago

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

  • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
    41·
    3 days 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 😭

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
    71·
    2 days 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.