Date: August 5th, 2026 10:02 AM Author: Wild hairy legs ticket booth
(No link) because the video is not findable on the internet. But I have seen two versions of it constantly pop up when I stream tv shows.
In one an elderly woman is alone knitting, talking to an AI voice, hoping that her grandson will like the sweater she is making him. She repeatedly forgets the name of the "sweetie" she is talking to, and is told "My name is Chat GPT"
In another, a different elderly woman is talking to Chat, interrupting it to ask about weather and traffic. The AI, with infinite patience, permits itself to be interrupted and spoken-over, and calms her that the weather is sunny.
Deeply dystopian, and for all the fears of being left with Jamaican nurses in our senescence, millennials will likely be abandoned to some corporate AI bot
Date: August 5th, 2026 10:35 AM Author: Slippery locale
marketshare play
millennials are outsourcing cognitive care to claude just firing automatic texts back to parents "ask claude, mom". This ad campaign aims to override their children's wishes and form a deeper bond between grandma and machine.
Date: August 5th, 2026 10:39 AM Author: Wild hairy legs ticket booth
a million years ago, there was a satiric xo thread about alexa sending flowers to dad's grave
its more disturbing to think of what precise goyshit the adult children are doing in the moments that their parents are chatting mindlessly with Chat. Using their own AI to fix a spreadsheet?