At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/meta-is-testing-an-ai-bedtime-story-app-for-people-with-no-imagination/
7 Comments
schwim@piefed.zip · 14 pts · 35d
Some of my best memories with my daughter is reading bedtime stories and making them up when she wanted something particular.
artyom@piefed.social · 13 pts · 35d
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.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 35d
or even from the Internet, fwiw, there are plenty of public domain fairy tales available there...
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 35d
exposing small children to AI-generated things? I seriously wonder about the effects of that on their brains...
Marija_@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 34d
Some things don't need AI at all.
WereCat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
This has the same energy as playing music for deaf people and painting pictures for blind people
arty@feddit.org · 2 pts · 35d
And I thought for a moment this is for people with aphantasia