Asian Parents Use ChatGPT to Lecture Children

Why waste time thinking up lectures when an AI can do it for you?

April 1, 2023

By: K.Cheng 

Linda Lin is a busy woman. She was supposed to be an empty nester with ample free time after her children had grown up. But between running a small business, Tai Chi classes, and Bitcoin mining, she hardly has time to pursue her true passion: telling her adult children  they’re doing everything wrong.

That is, until she found out about ChatGPT, the AI that can write…well anything. Copy-n-pasters everywhere have utilized this new and powerful technology. Need to write a cover letter than an employer will never read? Did you say something racist and need to make a public apology? Are you sex offender who’s been caught sex offending, but you need to deny it? ChatGPT can write it. It probably wrote this article.

Linda recently found out about ChatGPT and it has not only freed up more of her time, but reinvigorated her to do even more lecturing. “I used to barely have time to tell my daughter that she’s fat while simultaneously telling her that she needs to eat more. Or tell my son that he needs to hurry up and give me grandchildren.” But now, Linda can simply prompt ChatGPT: “I need to make my kids feel inadequate. Write an insult guised as advice.”

Linda’s children concur. Amy Lin, a nobel-prize-winning doctor/engineer/astronaut lamented “I have an iron deficiency. My mom used to text me daily that it’s my fault because I go out too much. But lately, I’ve only gotten a few texts a week with minimal angry face emojis.” But after adopting ChatGPT, Amy’s mom can more frequently let her know that she needs to be more like her cousin.