At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/meta-is-testing-an-ai-bedtime-story-app-for-people-with-no-imagination/
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I don’t understand. You could spend an entire lifetime reading existing bedtime stories from your local library. There’s absolutely no reason to demolish the planet and the economy in pursuit of some sort of shitty replacement.
You could spend an entire lifetime reading existing bedtime stories from your local library.
or even from the Internet, fwiw, there are plenty of public domain fairy tales available there…
Some things don’t need AI at all.
Some of my best memories with my daughter is reading bedtime stories and making them up when she wanted something particular.
exposing small children to AI-generated things? I seriously wonder about the effects of that on their brains…
This has the same energy as playing music for deaf people and painting pictures for blind people
And I thought for a moment this is for people with aphantasia
