[MrDresden]

Very cool.

My own 74 year old surviving parent would never be able to get them selves to even try, as they have spent most of their lives telling reiterating a mantra about how little they know about technology.

It has been a guiding principle of mine to never do that with anything, after seeing the effect it has had on her.

[NavinF]

This website was likely not made by a 70 year old grandma judging by how it was promoted on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1enuhw5/my_70_...

https://www.reddit.com/user/Ruth_Ellaer

https://www.reddit.com/user/puzzledpenguins

[BearOso]

The source fits the pattern of something generated by LLM and even includes comments that were probably part of the prompt.

Doesn't anyone else remember being a beginner? This isn't something I would have made. It has too many extra little nuances. The dictionary is a big clue.

[saintradon]

If that's the case then what's the endgame of this promotion? Strange.

[Retr0id]

Testing the waters, I guess.

"it's my birthday today [AI generated image of Grandma with birthday cake]" is a viable business model on Facebook these days: https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/

If they get enough clicks they could put profitable ads on the page, or even sell it (like what happened with Wordle).

[serial_dev]

Go viral and show ads?

Get the chatter going, get "press", clicks, visitors and players, then potentially ads, or selling the site (for someone else to put even more ads on it), or using it as marketing reference (I made a game viral by lying about it).

[rjh29]

Wordle sold for $1+ million. An average word game with a unique hook like "my grandma made it" is well positioned to sell or at least attract a lot of viral traffic.

Anyway, the grandma story has been exposed as fake.

[atopal]

It’s called learned helplessness and is a good indicator for pessimism. There is a book I enjoyed that discusses the issue in depth, called: Learned Optimism, by Martin Seligman. The second half of the book is about how to become less of a pessimist, by addressing learned helplessness.

[nyjah]

My mom is the same way. She’s really capable and smart, but she will also stop herself from plugging something in because she’s unsure.

I convinced her that she can figure out any remote and they are designed to be figured out. I told her at most there’s gonna be 5 buttons she doesn’t understand and it won’t break anything to hit them. Most of the buttons are numbers or volume and channel up down, power.

She got that. When her mom was sick and had different tvs because of different circumstances my mom would be like, “I did figure out the remote tho and was able to get the television working.”

I was with my 3 year old niece the other day and she turned on the receiver and then the television and I said , “wow, I’m impressed you figured that out.” And she said , “yeah when grandma watches me she doesn’t know how”. . .

[mattmaroon]

Ever since I was a little kid, teaching the other little kids how to do math, I’ve believed that most people who think they aren’t able to do something aren’t able to do it because they think they can’t.

And I tell myself that every day as I try to learn guitar in my 40’s.