Comment by andrewdug
5 months ago
I have heard of books, but my kids prefer to have a large percentage of the knowledge of books on their wrist, such that if they see a clam at the beach and want to know about it, we don't need to wait until library day on Tuesday.
Can't they just ask their parents? Do you really think it's a good idea to give little kids unsupervised access to an LLM chatbot?
For questions their parents know the answers to, absolutely. That is the best idea. But the alternative to an LLM chatbot isn't their parents, it's Google. And Google has been showing kids pornography for decades. So, why not give kids access to information that does not also have access to pornography?
If the parent doesn't know the answer they can google it and then explain it to their kid. Really, I don't see the immediate need for such an app and as a parent I find the premise almost offensive. I won't even start with the potential dangers.
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