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Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by advisedwang on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:12PM (#44790182)
Very weird errors in the site, is this AI generated?

When you click on the 2 year old options, it says "6 Activities for Kids Aged 2" despite there being 19 shown, and the text begins "Nine-year-olds are full of ideas..."

The images are good but kinda off... e.g. for https://offline.kids/activity/water-play-tub/ the kid and tub are floating in a even larger body of water, and for https://offline.kids/activity/fabric-sensory-tunnel/ there is a magical rigid blanket-tunnel.

Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by EForEndeavour on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:44PM (#44790559)
Good catch. Yeah, definitely AI-generated. The text in the images are in that unmistakeable ChatGPT 4o image generation font that's weirdly kinda fat and oddly kerned.

On AI's struggles with hands: do humans have four or five fingers? Why not both!? https://offline.kids/activity/diy-jigsaw-puzzle/

Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by tinier_subsets on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:50PM (#44790619)
>On AI's struggles with hands: do humans have four or five fingers? Why not both!? https://offline.kids/activity/diy-jigsaw-puzzle/

You missed the puzzle itself, where it’s actually three fingers. Kind of impressive degree of inconsistency, honestly.

Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by woadwarrior01 on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:25PM (#44790340)
The images are certainly GPT Image 1 generated. Also, the text on the about page is almost certainly AI generated.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by tinier_subsets on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:38PM (#44790502)
I never fully believed the “em-dashes are an AI giveaway” meme — until I saw that front page.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by eszed on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:55PM (#44790674)
I'm really sad about this, because I'm a word (and punctuation) nerd and use em-dashes in my own writing, because they're correct, dagnabit. Now I'm reconsidering the practice.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by nxobject on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:06PM (#44790788)
This may cause some psychic damage, but I use en dashes instead for this reason... even though yes, it's only conventionally used for numeric ranges.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by ziml77 on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:56PM (#44791243)
Keep using them. Don't let AI steal beautiful em-dashes away from you.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by ascorbic on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:52PM (#44790647)
LLMs don't put spaces around their em-dashes.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by beAbU on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:20AM (#44799166)
I had to take a look for myself and damn... It's almost as if this was done intentionally to be ironic or something.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by bongodongobob on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:36PM (#44790480)
Looks exactly like images generated by M365 copilot if I don't ask for something specific.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by ascorbic on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:51PM (#44790632)
The images are probably AI, but I don't think the site itself is. It's a WordPress site, and the about page says the author is a web designer and the link in the footer is to a WordPress agency.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by lynndotpy on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:47PM (#44790594)
The "illustration" on the front page absolutely smacks of the ai-generates aesthetic, and especially the illustrations in the "posts".

I don't understand what the point of this website is. It's disingenuous, shallow, and artificial. If someone wanted to outsource their relationship with their offspring to a text generator, why wouldn't they just go to ChatGPT directly?

I can't imagine there's much overlap between people who want their kids to have less screen-time, but also have no standards for what replaces the screen time.

Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by androng on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:30PM (#44790398)
all of the pictures are AI-generated, probably from GPT-image-1
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by nerevarthelame on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:24PM (#44790961)
It looks like most of the blog posts for the site were also generated by ChatGPT. In the most recent article [0], all of the provided links include "?utm_source=chatgpt.com"

In "How to Reduce Kids’ Screen Time – Without the Tantrums" [1], half of the expert quotes were misquoted or could not be confirmed.

[0] https://offline.kids/teaching-kids-to-lose-gracefully/ [1] https://offline.kids/how-to-reduce-kids-screen-time-without-...