"Where are the androids?" Reddit debates why AI automated art before housework
dev_ttangkong · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Redditor rants that childhood promises of AI meant physical robots — yet instead of domestic androids we got AI voice cloning (his brother uses a tool matching anime voice actors at native quality) and infinite generated slop. Discussion covers why software tasks were automated before hardware, and his experience firing an AI-dependent student teammate whose output was slower to review than doing it himself: "we're building tools to outsource basic thinking."
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