Soon, most of the babysitting video will be AI slop, as an infinite amount can be produced, keeping any baby occupied and out of their busy parents’ hair. That will produce a generation of children with impaired causal reasoning faculties, if not object permanence.
Either this or they’ll enforce age verification on all of us to “save the babies”.
What the actual fuck is wrong with people. This is child abuse.
If I ever have kids the best they will get is a Nokia flip phone. Not gonna let big tech raise my kid.
Some people will argue not being allowed tech, kids will be left out socially. My soon to be 13 year old, has not had this happen.
Unless you count the one time a kid told my son he’d rather play games on his computer, than come play outside, there’s not been a downside for him socially thus far. Kid makes friends everywhere he goes, and loves to read. My son sits for his lunch with a book. I’ve taken up reading books in the waiting rooms, so he doesnt see me scrolling like these other parents do. It’s been fine. Ive had people literally yell at me it will ruin them socially.
My son, and the other screen free kids in the neighborhood, are the only ones you ever see. My neighbors all love him, he helps the elderly lady nextdoor with yard work, and chit chats with them often. One day a few weeks ago, I forgot the kids had a half day. I got a call from my neighbor, my son was home, wondering where I was. Thankfully just up the street at the grocery store, but he did exactly what I told him to do if he was ever in trouble and we werent home. He has a sense of community irl and I love that.
Across the street right here, two children live, one in middleschool, one in highschool. You never see them. It does make me sad. The younger one played for two days with my son, and then never came out again because he preferes his computer. I blame the parents, this (at the time) ten year old, couldnt run, at all. He said to me one day, “yeah I sit on the couch, I sit on my bed, I sit at my computer” and was just rattling off places he likes to sit around his house, like it was a joke.
who is hindered socially here?
Those parents should be jailed or fined
I sit in front of a screen for 8 hours with breaks and that can make my eyes hurt, so I can only imagine what that can do to a pair of young developing eyes.
I definitely think there should at least be a penalty of some sorts for parents who don’t actually parent and let the iPad raise there kids.
What its doing to a young, developing brain is far, far worse.
