Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps when safety rules break

Re:Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps whe... by bigmattystyles on Sunday May 25, 2025 @11:49AM (#44088654)

I’m dumbfounded at the negative comments in here. Read the git read me, it’s a hobby for op, not some crazy commercial venture and he makes it clear it’s to help in the event one gets distracted for a few seconds. The only valid comment is his daughter being likely too big for her crib, but sheesh lay off op’s approach to actually trying something. Ps: am not op’s alt account.

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Re:Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps whe... by throwaway314155 on Sunday May 25, 2025 @05:11PM (#44091165)

The only negative comment that is perhaps overly negative is the one mentioning "killing babies" (but they make a good point still).

Everyone else's criticism is effectively entirely warranted even if it's just a hobby project if only because the criticisms are mostly pretty mild and reasonable things like "don't try to automate parenting with tech that still isn't ready yet".

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Re:Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps whe... by zeenolife on Sunday May 25, 2025 @07:43PM (#44092380)

Cheers!

Yes, I tried to stress it hard that it's in no way a replacement for an adult, just an additional eye as a safeguard

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Re:Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps whe... by husband4412 on Sunday May 25, 2025 @11:31PM (#44093718)

Tools that can cause harm deserve scrutiny, regardless if OP make money or not.

Also who knows ? With enough popularity, OP might launch this into a startup.

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Re:Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps whe... by diggan on Monday May 26, 2025 @06:14AM (#44095862)

> Tools that can cause harm deserve scrutiny

How on earth would this project, by itself, cause harm?

Sure, inattentive parents can lead to children hurting themselves, but that can happen while browsing gmail, or even when frigate is setup, does that mean gmail and frigate cause harm to children? Obviously not.

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Re:Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps whe... by itishappy on Monday May 26, 2025 @10:55AM (#44098040)

Gmail and Frigate aren't AI Baby Monitors. If you use Frigate as a baby monitor, it's absolutely worth scrutinizing your setup. The exact same thing can be said of a human nanny too. You wouldn't hire someone with no research.

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Re:Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps whe... by diggan on Monday May 26, 2025 @11:02AM (#44098130)

No, but what about people planning terror attacks via gmail? Does that count as gmail being a "harmful" tool? You've seemed to have missed my point completely.

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Re:Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps whe... by itishappy on Monday May 26, 2025 @11:54AM (#44098586)

Yeah, which is why Google scans your messages for illegal content. Not sure if they scan for terrorism, but they certainly do for CSAM.

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