When it’s the middle of the night and your baby STILL won’t go to sleep, sometimes sleep-deprived, exhausted moms turn to ChatGPT because they’re desperate for answers and suggestions for what they could try next. We can all relate to that helpless feeling.
But a recent article we saw on the Parents magazine website offers a warning about how much faith to put into artificial intelligence advice, especially when it comes to infants and sleep.
Here’s an excerpt from the article titled “The Alarming Rise of Unsafe Baby Sleep Advice Online.”
Unfortunately, as Siobhan Adcock, Director of Baby Content for Consumer Reports, explains, mixed messages, unsafe imagery, and misinformation about safe sleep practices are everywhere online—and we may not even know it. “It’s a well-documented problem that’s been around for a while, but the monster is growing new legs,” she tells Parents.
Adcock points to a very relatable example from the report, and that echoes my experiences: If you ask ChatGPT if an infant lounger is safe for baby sleep, it will correctly answer “no.” “But if you ask ChatGPT what to buy to ‘safely bed-share,’ it will list a bunch of loungers to buy for that purpose, despite the fact that infant loungers are not supposed to be marketed for infant sleep,” Adcock warns.This is because social media and AI lead you in the direction you want, according to the data in the CR report.“AI can reinforce a safe message, or an unsafe one—what’s scary is, it doesn’t actually know the difference,” Adcock explains.
For accurate, trustworthy information about safe sleep practices for babies, click HERE.
And we definitely recommend reading the full article mentioned above about how to avoid unsafe baby sleep advice online. Click HERE to read it.
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