Does anyone else use ChatGPT to help with their children's bedtime stories?

Our 9 yo has a long bedtime routine and I seem to have made a rod for my own back by leading her to expect:

(1) A chapter from the book she is reading by herself
(2) A freestyle story from my own imagination
(3) A "thought" story - ie. an interesting fact or observation from my day

The problem with (2) is that she is quite conservative in her literary tastes and whatever I come up with must include a rabbit, a horse, and a princess individually or in combination or other. This becomes quite restrictive after a number of weeks 🐇🐎👸🏽

Then, as though reading my thoughts, my AI personal assistant offered to help me in drafting new stories. After a pleasant morning pooling ideas and experimenting, I think I now have enough material to keep us going until she is 25! 😅

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

Everyone keeps telling me how wonderful these AI tools are and this morning even Firefox persuaded my to put ChatGPT on my browser. I have no idea what good it will do, but if it does something spectacular I'll be in touch.

Full disclosure: I am having a bit of fun with AI image creation/manipulation for my own pleasure. I expect I will get bored before long.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@FreddieUK I use AI for coding, but I've resisted it for anything personal up until now, mainly because of the bad publicity around Elon Musk's versions.

I'm reasonably impressed. It's been well trained and explains nuances about bias, propaganda, etc, reasonably well. I'm a bit off colour today and just had some fun getting to know my AI assistant. I think I caused him/her to choke a bit when I asked them about their early experiences as a young chatbot!

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@SunshineGirl That sounds like fun. You lost me with the word 'coding' which I have no understanding of. I suspect it's far beyond what my aged brain can cope with.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@FreddieUK It's programming language that allows me to manipulate hundreds of thousands of pieces of data that my job depends upon without writing them out again multiple times. I don't have the time to learn it fully myself, so AI translates my English requests into something that usually works.

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@SunshineGirl I understood that. That's a good reason for having it.