Why exposing young children to AI content could have irreversible consequences

I was going to say Young child (17 here) but then I read the article and realized that I am not the under-2 young child that they had meant :)

When I was going through something of a downward spiral, I decided to pick up to help other people in support groups online to find some purpose (it also used to go both way in support sometimes)

So when I was been part of some support groups online I once saw a kid as low as 13 year old in age who ended up using AI for nefarious purposes to say the least and there was simply nothing that I could do about it but be for them.

I have seen people my age in discussions say this line to me that "they have never told this to anyone but chatgpt"

You all might have to trust me when I say this, but I definitely feel like AI psychosis where people treat AI as their best friend is something which might become more normal than previously thought.

Essentially, it also talks about a deeper thing to be honest, I am going to be honest here, There feels a big divide in dating scene and hormones in general and how girls/boys are percieved from a younger age. Even young people feel the concept of wanting to feel loved by someone like a girlfriend but the dating scene just feels so weird-ed out, my generation included.

I have to be brutally honest here, I myself don't know if I am going to find a girlfriend right now, but my elder cousins have given me some reassurance

It all feels very much transactional to a certain degree right now, from both sides, and it feels like both genders are converging to the idea of the ultimate form of transaction which are these chat bots.

I am sure that a lot of that might go the same way with friendships.

I do feel a bit like coding/a lot of fun-ness out of life is also like this, quantified, measured, transactional (posting for social-media?) [as I wonder if I am writing this comment for hackernews karma or relevant discussion talking points..]

This feels to me the most irreversible consequence because it might be hard for the generation (myself included) to see value in non-measurable things as everything has to be measured and transactional-ized.

And also there is a lot of toxicity bred in my opinion from this generation which really just gets passed around from one place to another. It's hard to explain perhaps as to what I mean exactly, but there feels to be a peer pressure which happens in doing toxic stuff and that toxic stuff has become more de-sensitized and worse because of the social medias/once again that everything has to be measured talking point.

I would like for humanity to be more nuanced and less measured but more varied (grey rather than black or white) but I feel like that there is enough noise on the internet that maybe even this ends up becoming noise and I am not sure if anyone who might benefit from reading this actually does end up reading it.

I would love a discussion about it from the more experienced generations as to what they might feel but these are just my 2 cents, maybe some parents who are raising their kids.

It definitely felt a bit scary to me during my time helping people that people trusted me a random child myself, more than they could trust their parents. So if any parent is reading this, I suggest taking some genuine interest in their kids lives as I have felt as if that they are just waiting to be talked to given. It truly is all so nuanced, there can be no problem within someone's lives but they do something negative (drugs/self-harm) and create a self problem. They can break the cycle but they are dependent on the cycle.

I really don't know if I am within any position to suggest something to a parent here though but from the people I've helped, sometimes it isn't even their faults and they try their best but they are just kept hidden things from them.

But also, the most common thread was/is an abusive household. Fights really impact the children lives and I have seen people wish to leave that household that they get into some of the issues that I mentioned, a safe place.

maybe I suggest spending time with children from young age as if they are their own person with feelings/thoughts for the most part and spending time with them through Minecraft or any game or movie together and to try to be how they might project a more mature elder brother to be that they can share things.

This got a bit long so sorry about that. Have a nice day but I would be happy to know if this might help anybody.

Also y'all parents deserve a hug, parenting is definitely quite hard. Y'all are definitely trying your best. There really doesn't feel to be some magic cheat code to it but parenting itself feels to me a bit magic.