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A San Francisco software engineer went viral after sharing that he lets a chatbot read stories to his baby, remarking that 'parenting hits different when you work in AI.' The post has fueled online discussion about the growing role of AI tools in everyday parenting tasks, alongside a cited survey finding that 90% of parents say AI makes raising children easier.
Alvin Sng, a software engineer at startup Factory AI, posted on X that rather than reading a book aloud to his newborn himself, he offered to play an audiobook, then proposed training a voice model of himself to narrate it. He captioned the exchange 'Parenting hits different when you work in AI'; the post has since been deleted. The anecdote follows earlier comments from OpenAI's Sam Altman about using ChatGPT and AI-generated podcasts in place of everyday parent-child conversation.