AI reading bedtime stories to kids sparks backlash: automating what 'should never scale'
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-10-08
An AI tool that reads to children is drawing criticism. Quoted author SketchesbyBoze calls it "a cancer of the mind," arguing parents could simply read to their kids instead of abandoning the very things that give life its deepest joy. Reposter CurieuxExplorer quips that we've now automated "the one job that was never supposed to scale."
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