Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
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I don't understand. You could spend an entire lifetime reading existing bedtime stories from your local library. There's absolutely no reason to demolish the planet and the economy in pursuit of some sort of shitty replacement.
or even from the Internet, fwiw, there are plenty of public domain fairy tales available there...
Some of my best memories with my daughter is reading bedtime stories and making them up when she wanted something particular.
Some things don't need AI at all.
exposing small children to AI-generated things? I seriously wonder about the effects of that on their brains...
This has the same energy as playing music for deaf people and painting pictures for blind people
And I thought for a moment this is for people with aphantasia