i have taken over my dads substack

A 9-year-old's takes on Social Media and AI.

Hi. I’m not your normal writer.

I'm a 9-year-old.

So, let's skip the cheesy intro and get right to the subject (unlike my Dad).

TikTok.

TikTok has destroyed people’s attention spans. I say that kindly. If you're still reading, I'll give you a pat on the head.

Let’s just say someone I know is into TikTok. He watches it at least for a few hours every day. TikTok also thinks he’s an Italian who likes owls. So, not a very targeted system.

Anywho, most social media is basically a way to make your stuff publicly known. Or just a way to brag about your new house.

Facebook is a prime way for people to do that. It’s really annoying. I’ll be honest. If any civilized person with a normal mind went and bragged in public about their new clothes or house, they’d get a bad reputation.

Who cares about your new three-story house? I don’t even know you.

Neighborhoods are full of people like that. They just want to talk your head off. They don’t care if you have places to be.

Now, I’m sidetracked.

By 2050, people will be unable to pay attention for even half a second. I’m not going all doomsday on you, but hey, be prepared.

If you've ever lived in a place that gets excited over fast food and car washes, you know it's crawling with social media-addicted people.

Sure, they're “nice” but nice means that you're just waiting for their stupid tiny dog to cross the street.

And I forgot to mention that everyone is as fake as the Siri voices on your phone.

It’s like people put on a mask. I'd rather put a chain lock on my door than talk with a person like that.

Again, I'm massively neurodivergent.

I’m a strange person.

COVID was a hard blow for extremely social people. Honestly, COVID was the best time of my life. I didn’t have to talk to anybody. The air quality got better, too, because people quit driving their cars.

Nice time.

I’m going to quit rambling on now.

Social media. AI.

Things that go over my Dad’s head.

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen him ask Grok a question and just thought it was right the whole time.

I told him to practice some media literacy, and he thought that was a site.

I swear, it goes over his head.

I'm not going to trash my Italian TikTok cooking video-obsessed father; I just thought I’d get that out.

Grok, for all of you like my Dad, is an AI. AI makes mistakes. Humans made it, and we’ve made some pretty hefty mistakes.

If you don’t believe me and think like a stubborn mule, let me list a few mistakes. The sinking of the Titanic, Pompeii, and all of those boring reality TV shows.

I’m not going to bore you with how AI works, but it feeds off the information you and others give it. But, AI is very exposed to humans with the wrong purposes.

Another vocabulary term for you adults who are listening to a kid give you a lecture about AI is Media Literacy.

It’s basically trying to back up your thinking about a certain post.

Again, my Dad fell for a post made by a scam account of NASA that showed a video of human faces on Mars.

That might’ve been my favorite one. Yes, there were multiple times.

So, don’t believe everything you hear adults say.

As a final joke for you all, I think my Dad will make more money editing my 11-page book than selling his novel.

Maybe the tides will turn.

Choose your favorite.