This is a post about how to prepare when a parent is diagnosed with dementia. It is evidently AI-written. (Short staccato sentences. Not this but that.) But, it has a lot of solid general advice about this very tough topic so no objections there. And there are really good actual humans sharing advice in the comments which is a very worthwhile thing to facilitate.

The reason I felt moved to comment and share this now is that… the author is using AI in the comments too, to respond to people’s actual specific incredibly difficult life situations. This woman said ‘how do I put a tracker on mom when she has 20 pairs of shoes and I don’t know how she’ll dress’ and the AI continues to say ‘Airtag in coat and insole’. (I don’t know how you can put an airtag in an insole, surely the person will feel it, but this is the kind of embodied experience an AI doesn’t know about.)

This is the very disturbing side of AI writing. A person in an incredibly difficult life situation seeking out real help from what she hopes is another real human who’s had similar life experiences, only to be met not by another person but by the blank face of the robot.