Genuine question - why do you allow _any_ time? I don’t have kids, so I’m able to make these large generalizing statements: seems like personal connections to AI chatbots are a form of brain rot.
There are plenty of positives for kids with AI bots.
Children often have questions that they are not comfortable talking to their parents about. And their peers can often be more clueless than they are. Or maybe they just want to understand the world they live in with something that is more fun and engaging than reading Wikipedia.
What's harming children right now aren't services like this. It's the peer pressure and unreal expectations being set by social media.
>What's harming children right now aren't services like this.
kinda really fucking depends on what "services like this" are telling them. Remember when the national eating disorder hotline replaced it's humans with chat bots that started telling people to just eat less?
As a parent, I'm with you. But parenthood sucks. From day one, that person you're "responsible for" is actually a separate entity with its own thoughts and bodily autonomy.
And here they are, growing up with this technology, entirely unlike anything available to us in our childhoods. But one thing remains the same: if we shut them out altogether, they'll route around us and find it on their own.
A teetotaler myself, but the "not one drop" mentality doesn't really make a ton of sense to me. Not because I want my kid using AI or alcohol, but I'd rather him try it under my watch than go out and find it on his own.
But if this is a feature that parental controls cannot limit, then I honestly don't know what to say other than, perhaps we're fucked as a society.
Ya, the other thing is that we need to gradually give them freedom and have them make some recoverable mistakes under our watch, or they could go straight from sheltered kid to adult in the world on their own. By 16, they should have 75% of the freedom of an adult, because they’ll have 100% at 18.
threeseed|1 year ago
Children often have questions that they are not comfortable talking to their parents about. And their peers can often be more clueless than they are. Or maybe they just want to understand the world they live in with something that is more fun and engaging than reading Wikipedia.
What's harming children right now aren't services like this. It's the peer pressure and unreal expectations being set by social media.
Avshalom|1 year ago
kinda really fucking depends on what "services like this" are telling them. Remember when the national eating disorder hotline replaced it's humans with chat bots that started telling people to just eat less?
unknown|1 year ago
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klyrs|1 year ago
And here they are, growing up with this technology, entirely unlike anything available to us in our childhoods. But one thing remains the same: if we shut them out altogether, they'll route around us and find it on their own.
A teetotaler myself, but the "not one drop" mentality doesn't really make a ton of sense to me. Not because I want my kid using AI or alcohol, but I'd rather him try it under my watch than go out and find it on his own.
But if this is a feature that parental controls cannot limit, then I honestly don't know what to say other than, perhaps we're fucked as a society.
seanmcdirmid|1 year ago