Move over Supernanny, there’s a new parenting guru in town and it’s a robot that once confidently told me the capital of Australia is Sydney. Desperate moms and dads are now crowdsourcing bedtime stories, tantrum fixes, and “is my kid’s poop normal?” medical advice from ChatGPT faster than you can say “hallucination.” Apparently nothing says “I love you” to your toddler like having a sycophantic language model that agrees with every wild theory you already had. Who needs pediatricians when you’ve got a bot that will happily tell little Timmy that yes, monsters ARE real but they’re friendly if you leave them cookies?

Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children