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  • From personal experience I can confirm that LLMs are terrible for childcare advice. Don't even need to get into the fact that they will never have all the context and are predisposed to sycophantically reinforce your side of situation which is especially problematic when you approach chatbots when you are distressed. LLMs don't seem to understand children at all. I remember one time asking for advice regarding my two y/o nephew and it told me to sit down with and explain to him. Two y/o are not that verbal. I tried this multiple times and it made the same mistake every time.

    • Sitting my 2y/o down after i caught him watching paw patrol and calmly explaining how the show is copaganda and why he should not be watching it

    • Cw child harm (no child actually comes to harm thank goodness but the scenario gpt puts the child in is extremely irresponsible and on the balance likely to cause harm)

      • Are you sure this isn't a joke they're doing?

        • Yes, I'm sure it isn't a joke. They don't really do 'bits', they got their start as drive time FM radio hosts, so their comedy is mostly anecdotal, stunts or caller-input. Hamish's shtick is that he's an affable buffoon, and it's entirely in keeping with how he relates other stories about looking after his kids

      • Hamish and Andy have a podcast now? I though they just faded away into nothing after radio hosts stopped being a thing.

        • Yep, originally their drive time show was uploaded as a podcast on iTunes way back when, but then when they left commerical radio ca 2017 they launched a separate podcast, now recorded at the LiSTNR recording studios in South Melbourne where Triple M is broadcast from, it's essentially part of the pivot of commercial drivetime to podcast.

          I should stop listening entirely, I'm still subbed because I went through a lot of old H+A stuff during the lockdowns, and there were a few fun segments, but it's just twaddle and both of them are unrelatable bores who'd rather talk about buying plastic crap from Instagram ads, or their fifth golf trip for the year than have a listener participation segment (like where they used to showcase listener 'special skills' (useless but unique party tricks)).

    • They're trained heavily on reddit comments, and there's no group of people who hate children as much as redditors.

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