I’m sure I’ll get flak for this but I’m sorry we can argue about AI all day and there’s a lot of stuff that’s being built and is genuinely depressing but this takes the cake. There’s few memories I cherish more of childhood than being read The Hobbit at the age of your children. The best part was my dad would slip in nonsense sentences when it seemed like I was drifting off. “And then Roxolotl hops out and grabs the ring!” We’d then play off of each other creating a brief fork in the story. I’d strongly encourage you to just talk to your children. You’d be amazed how good they are at coming up with stories on their own and it’s an incredible way to bond.

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dang an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Please don't turn a positive memory of your own experience into a hostile response to someone else. Parenting is probably the single most personal and intimate matter that gets discussed on HN, and it's extremely sensitive. There's basically no place for telling someone else that they're a bad parent here. It's always going to land as a personal attack and a particularly painful one. I realize you didn't intend it that way, but what matters is effects, not intent. We're all just doing the best we can.

I'm glad you got to have that wonderful time with your father.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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umanwizard 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

Curious why you responded to this comment in particular when 90%+ of the comments express roughly the same sentiment.

A world in which people are entertaining their kids with AI-generated slop seems self-evidently horrific and it’s normal for people to want to push back on that.

	▲	dang 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I guess because (1) It was the top comment at the time, (2) there were a lot fewer comments at that moment; (3) it was more personally critical than the others (though again, I'm sure that was unintentional).

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armadsen 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Seriously. My son and I are about 3/4ths through Fellowship of the Ring after he loved The Hobbit. We’ve read all of Narnia, Wildwood, and many other (long!) books and book series together. Either his mom or I have read to him very nearly every single day of his life. I know he loves it, and it has made him love reading on his own too.

I have never once felt there weren’t enough good stories - written by humans - out there for us. Quite the opposite: there are more than we could ever get through in a hundred lifetimes. There’s no way an LLM can outdo Tolkien.

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zenethian 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wholeheartedly agree. I pity any kid whose parents use this product. The AI use is irrelevant; this is just shameful.

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esafak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I do the same. As soon as I slip in a remark about the hero being rewarded for doing her homework her ears perk up and she follows me on the page to make sure I don't do it again!!