My 83 year old grandmother with budding dementia watches nonstop AI generated stories set in pre-industrial times on YouTube, only second to court TV. She says it’s comforting, and she just wants to be entertained with content that feels like the same thing.
Meanwhile her perceptions are being shaped by those comfortable fictions. Worse than written fiction? Who knows, we’re all test subjects at this point.
My 83 year old grandmother with budding dementia watches nonstop AI generated stories set in pre-industrial times on YouTube, only second to court TV. She says it’s comforting, and she just wants to be entertained with content that feels like the same thing.
Meanwhile her perceptions are being shaped by those comfortable fictions. Worse than written fiction? Who knows, we’re all test subjects at this point.
I can’t take it away from her… she gets mad and throws a tantrum.