Caitlin Johnstone: 01-08-2026,
There’s a creepy tweet going around by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recommending that parents feed their kids’ interests and schedules into ChatGPT so it can generate a daily custom-made bot podcast to listen to on their morning drive to school.
Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch posted the viral reply, “What if you just talked to your children?”
Which is a crazy thing to have to say. But here we are.
cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests.
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.
— Sam Altman (@sama) July 31, 2026
They’re trying to make us worse. These billionaire generative AI corporations reap profits by making us worse human beings.
They want us to become less human. Less connected. Less creative. Less capable. Less wise. Less intelligent. They want to atrophy our ability to speak, write, research, relate, draw, make music, and cultivate intimate connections with the most important people in our lives, and then sell those things back to us at the hands of some chatbot.
Their entire business model is built around turning us into a bunch of soup-brained narcissists who can’t manage our own lives and our own relationships,