Cashier Watched a Customer Use Google Gemini to Write a Baby Book Inscription
LuizaJarovsky · x · 2026-11-02
Luiza Jarovsky shared "I Have a Message," a viral Instagram poem (186K likes) by Caitlin Conlon based on a real event: a customer buying The Very Hungry Caterpillar as a baby-shower gift asked Google Gemini to generate a "heartfelt" inscription, then carefully copied it out in front of the cashier. The poet writes that she should be angry but was mostly sad, wishing future babies still read Eric Carle, "that the data centers don't drink up all the clean water," and "that they are braver than you."
Comments add split real-world cases: a funeral card no one read aloud because it was "clearly AI," and a wedding-site guestbook message that was "definitely AI she does not talk that way." A telling cultural snapshot of AI entering the most personal forms of written expression.
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