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Bonus: Alex Hirsch is the creator of Gravity Falls

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[-] stupe@lemmy.zip 96 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 hour 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.

[-] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[-] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 1 hour ago

How else are they going to sell targeted advertising?

[-] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 58 minutes 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.

[-] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 49 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 22 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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

[-] fizzle@quokk.au 13 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 5 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes 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.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 23 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 2 points 56 minutes ago

Why would Sam Altman kids want to talk to him?

[-] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 2 points 2 hours ago

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

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