Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT

山姆·奥特曼仍在为“通过 ChatGPT 育儿”摇旗呐喊

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seemed excited to share what he called a “cool use case” on Friday, posting that parents could “connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests” to the company’s new product ChatGPT Work, then “every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’s upcoming birthday, some news, etc.”

OpenAI 首席执行官山姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）周五似乎很兴奋地分享了他所谓的“酷炫用例”。他发帖称，家长们可以将“家庭日历关联起来，并向 ChatGPT Work（公司新产品）说明孩子们的兴趣”，然后“每天早上开车送孩子上学时，让它制作一个播客，聊聊孩子下午的足球比赛、即将到来的生日、一些新闻等等”。

Altman’s post prompted lots of virtual eye-rolling, including a simple response from Alex Hirsch, creator of the animated series “Gravity Falls”: “What if you just talked to your children”? Hirsch’s question seems to have gone even more viral than Altman’s initial post — while Altman’s comment has been reposted around 300 times and liked around 9,600 times (as of Saturday morning), Hirsch’s response has been reposted 9,000 times and received 122,000 likes.

奥特曼的帖子引发了许多网友的“在线翻白眼”，其中包括动画剧集《怪诞小镇》（Gravity Falls）创作者亚历克斯·赫希（Alex Hirsch）的简单回应：“要是你直接和孩子们聊天会怎样？”赫希的问题似乎比奥特曼最初的帖子传播得更广——截至周六上午，奥特曼的帖子被转发了约 300 次，点赞约 9,600 次，而赫希的回应则被转发了 9,000 次，获得了 12.2 万个赞。

This isn’t the first time a tech CEO has promised that AI can shield users — and specifically users’ morning commutes — from the messiness and inefficiency of human experience. Last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he’d stopped listening his favorite podcasts during his morning drive; instead, he asked an AI chatbot about those podcasts.

这已经不是科技公司高管第一次承诺 AI 可以让用户（特别是早晨通勤时的用户）免受人类体验中混乱和低效的困扰了。去年，微软首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadella）表示，他已经不再在早晨开车时听自己喜欢的播客，而是转而向 AI 聊天机器人询问这些播客的内容。

Altman’s post also echoed comments he’s made about parenting in the past, most notably when he appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and declared, “I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT.” (Though he was also quick to acknowledge, “Clearly, people did it for a long time, no problem.”)

奥特曼的帖子也呼应了他过去关于育儿的言论，最著名的一次是他参加《吉米·法伦今夜秀》（The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon）时宣称：“我无法想象如果没有 ChatGPT，我该如何搞定抚养新生儿这件事。”（尽管他也很快补充道：“显然，人们在很长一段时间里都做到了，没出什么问题。”）

Getting parents on-board seems to be a priority for OpenAI, which recently posted a job listing for a product manager with experience building trust-sensitive consumer experiences for parents and families. Meta, meanwhile, is testing an AI-powered app that tells bedtime stories.

争取家长用户似乎是 OpenAI 的优先事项，该公司最近发布了一则招聘启事，寻找一位有经验的产品经理，负责为家长和家庭构建“信任敏感型”的消费体验。与此同时，Meta 也在测试一款能讲睡前故事的 AI 应用。

But while OpenAI has added safety features for parents, it also faces multiple lawsuits from parents and families alleging that ChatGPT played a role in loved ones’ delusions and suicides. (The company has said it’s “continuously improving how our models respond in sensitive interactions.”)

然而，尽管 OpenAI 为家长增加了安全功能，但它也面临着来自家长和家庭的多项诉讼，指控 ChatGPT 在其亲人的妄想症和自杀事件中起到了推波助澜的作用。（该公司表示，正在“持续改进模型在敏感互动中的响应方式”。）