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The point is not that the children cannot listen to books but the bonding ritual that is reading to a child. Hearing the stories they like to hear. Having them ask for a specific one. Singing your child to sleep as well - you can still play music but the act of them watching you sing and hearing your voice is important.
Go listen to a Tonee or whatever when you get home from school while I'm making dinner and let your imagination run wild to Gabby's Treehouse audio books but I'm reading Cinderella tonight.
And did this guy say he’s offloading all of that? No. Everyone here is screeching “because AI”.
His partner asked him to read to the baby and he said to her that he didn't want to and that he could train an AI model to replicate his voice so he didn't have to.
She could be a nagging and needy, codependent mess but he still knocked her up and stuck around so when your partner says "Why don't you read to the baby, it'll be cute." You read to the damn baby.
This is all fake and likely words you could only utter on the green text comm, so really, let's not worry about it but this guy did, in his shitpost, say "No, I'd rather not read to my baby." Homeboy checked out before the damn thing could even crawl over to the electrical socket and take the easy way out of being raised by him.
Not "because AI", I just hate people who don't read to their kids... And AI. It's a combination of two things I hate.