Re:Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app
by pamelafox on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @04:19PM
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I would argue that we're passing on 5% of life to the machines, not 100%. By the time bedtime has rolled around, my kids have been home for 5 hours - we have already spent hours reading, playing, parkour'ing, role-playing, painting, inventing, slime'ing, etc. We do manage to often tell a story ourselves (last night, we made the kids tell it!), but I am not going to judge a parent (or myself) for deciding to delegate a fraction of creative energy to a machine.
I was 100% against screens when first having a kid, but now I'm content with kids getting a spectrum of entertainment styles, and for parents to get a break every so often.
This feels like the crux of my issues with AI. We're passing the human side of life to machines to do for us; music, art, storytelling with our kids. So often I hear that these are the things that people want to spend their time on, but AI has come to "free" us from "not having energy" to do those things, so we can instead continue to spend our energy toiling away, safe in the knowledge that our children will still get a bedtime story (albeit from a machine and not from a loving parent).
I get it, I know parents have no energy on top of everything else they're doing, this just feels so much like when I walk into a restaurant to a family with their kids, but the kids are all on tablets with headphones.