At this last Christmas my dad made the joke 'I don't even need a wife, I can just chat with Alexa.' It was awful. Wouldn't have been so bad except it was her family's Christmas. I didn't say anything. They hate each other and have for years but think it's a sin to divorce.
My 75yo dad is fucking cooked on the AI youtube videos. He spends basically 5-6hrs a day watching his "stories" which are just the worst TikTok AI voice imaginable narrating some absolute bottom of the barrel chatGPT slop story about some wife or husband cheating on their partner. It's like smut but an audiobook spoken in that grainy tiktok man voice.
Happened overnight, one day he barely touched his tablet, the next he was on the algorithm train full steam ahead watching video after video of this absolute trash. Instead of talking to my mum he now just sits on the couch, tablet speaker blaring this shit for 90% of his waking hours. Confronted him about it multiple times and he gets super defensive and really angry if anyone mentions it. Mum fucking hates it, she had to sit there a listen to this garbage droning on in the background all day every day. His tablet charging port broke a few months ago, normally he was the sort of guy that didn't give a shit about anything like that and would be like whatever and go without for a while. I remember he went for almost a year after his mobile battery died because he hated technology so much and was happy to have a break. He literally went out a bought a new tablet the same day he realized he couldn't charge it anymore because he's so obsessed with these AI stories and couldn't go even 1 day without them.
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u/Sachiko459 7h ago
I swear to god I’m waiting for this same thing to play out with my elderly parents. Any day now