At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/meta-is-testing-an-ai-bedtime-story-app-for-people-with-no-imagination/
Some of my best memories with my daughter is reading bedtime stories and making them up when she wanted something particular.
I don’t understand. You could spend an entire lifetime reading existing bedtime stories from your local library. There’s absolutely no reason to demolish the planet and the economy in pursuit of some sort of shitty replacement.
You could spend an entire lifetime reading existing bedtime stories from your local library.
or even from the Internet, fwiw, there are plenty of public domain fairy tales available there…
exposing small children to AI-generated things? I seriously wonder about the effects of that on their brains…
Some things don’t need AI at all.
And I thought for a moment this is for people with aphantasia
This has the same energy as playing music for deaf people and painting pictures for blind people






