alt Hacker Newskids simply shouldn't be looking at a screen, AI-generated or not.
Screen time for kids (and adults for that matter!) should be way way scaled back. That falls on the parents.
Bad parents give their kids phones and tablets and that's a hill I will die on.
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Back in my kid days we had friends who had game consoles and PCs. I know it’s quaint now but we watched each other play and played on the same computer or TV. There wasn’t a way to avoid tainting our minds no matter how much they tried to protect us from duh screens. Okay I guess if they raised us like some rural homeschooling Christians, but for some reason people will complain about that kind of parenting too.
I guess it depends on the age of the kid , if a kid is 11-12-13 yo , you can hardly do anything about it. I remember of how I was at that age , now I am 38.
Ours conditionally get extremely limited and supervised screen time. I feel this is the way to do it.
do you have kids?
Many parents find parenthood difficult and are happy that something distracts their kid. Further, kids that tend to get more addicted to stuff like this tend to live in stressful circumstances.
It's easy to say be a better parent, or produce a better environment for your kid, but it's not as easy to help people with that. If we can make social media healthier for everyone, that's a big deal.