There is something unsettling knowing that AI takes over literal parenting. I mean, I'm not trying to argue with your particular use case of AI, but the general idea that AI might be better at raising children than humans. Imagine knowing that if you give your child a tablet with AI and never speak to it, it'll turn out as a better human being than anything you could reasonably do manually.

Of course your current method requires quite a few steps, but it's not hard to imagine a tablet where you just prompt "hey Claude, please take care of my child" and Claude automatically generates things that are engaging for the child while teaching it things. Things you'd never ever be able to do yourself. Your role is to just feed the child. You don't even need to be present - Claude automatically reacts in case of an emergency. Claude even taught the child how to maintain cleanliness so you don't need to do that, how convenient.

Now that's a Black Mirror episode. It's the story of all technology though, caveat emptor.

For me it's still about human connection though. I read the stories we create together. It's just a great tool. It makes any topic relatable. I.e. even crazy fun ones like "Claude weave a bedtime story about how the 5nm chip fab process works including EUV lithography and clean rooms".

Quick short 5-10 minute read and next thing you know we're talking about lasers and how sand becomes computers.

There's something deeply disturbing seeing you start with

"of course now you're behaving like a fantastic parent, taking time, money and effort to create custom stories, ensuring they'll never forget it"

And then follow with:

"it's not hard to imagine that at some point you'll just get bored and throw them a tabled and Ai chatbot".

Not just disturbing but dare I say, malicious.

Tht whole tone of your comment is just unsettling implications and fabulations.

I think that creating books customised for their kid(s) interests and then editing the book and reading it to them sounds awfully like great parenting.

Way better than reading sacharrine Disney books with their unsubtlety degraded morals.