Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seemed excited to stock what helium called a “cool usage case” connected Friday, posting that parents could “connect your household calendars and explicate your kids’ interests” to the company’s caller merchandise ChatGPT Work, past “every greeting for the thrust to school, person it marque a podcast that talks astir 1 kid’s shot crippled that afternoon, 1 kid’s upcoming birthday, immoderate news, etc.”

Altman’s station prompted tons of virtual eye-rolling, including a elemental response from Alex Hirsch, creator of the animated bid “Gravity Falls”: “What if you conscionable talked to your children”?

Hirsch’s question seems to person gone adjacent much viral than Altman’s archetypal station — portion Altman’s remark has been reposted astir 300 times and liked astir 9,600 times (as of Saturday morning), Hirsch’s effect has been reposted 9,000 times and received 122,000 likes.

This isn’t the archetypal clip a tech CEO has promised that AI tin shield users — and specifically users’ greeting commutes — from the messy realities of quality experience. Last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he’d stopped listening his favourite podcasts during his greeting drive; instead, helium asked an AI chatbot astir those podcasts.

Altman’s station besides echoed comments he’s made astir parenting successful the past, astir notably erstwhile he appeared connected “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and declared, “I cannot ideate having gone done figuring retired however to rise a newborn without ChatGPT.” (Though helium was besides speedy to acknowledge, “Clearly, radical did it for a agelong time, nary problem.”)

Getting parents on-board seems to beryllium a precedence for OpenAI, which precocious posted a occupation listing for a merchandise manager with acquisition gathering trust-sensitive user experiences for parents and families.

But portion the institution has added information features for parents, it besides faces multiple lawsuits from parents and families alleging that ChatGPT played a relation successful loved ones’ delusions and suicides. (The institution has said it’s “continuously improving however our models respond successful delicate interactions.”)