When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he may have been expecting some friendly laughs and soft questions about the future of AI. But one offhand comment triggered a wave of online backlash — and it had nothing to do with model weights, GPU clusters or AGI.

It was about parenting.

“I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT,” Altman said during the interview, explaining how the chatbot helped him manage new-parent anxiety when his child wasn’t crawling by six months. According to Altman, ChatGPT calmly reassured him everything was fine.

To some, it sounded like a charming anecdote about AI as a helpful assistant. But to many online, it sounded more like a frightening dystopian shift.

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