{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Fly and a Butterfly podcast with Vishnu Vaka and Mahitha Vaka","title":"AI, Social Media & Parenting: Are We All Addicted? | Fly and Butterfly Ep. 15","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4279,"description":"Fly and Butterfly Podcast Episode 15\nThis episode is a long, fast-moving debate between Vishnu and Maitha about AI, social media, parenting, and how technology is changing human behavior. They use ChatGPT as a jumping-off point, but the conversation expands into a bigger argument about moderation, responsibility, and whether older generations are equipped to guide kids through today’s information overload.Vishnu and Maitha both contribute heavily throughout, with Vishnu mostly arguing that AI and social media are useful tools when used in moderation, while Maitha pushes the idea that parents, not just platforms, need to take more responsibility for how kids consume information.\nKey topics\nIn this episode: ChatGPT as a glorified search engineVishnu explains how he sees large language models as vector database powered tools that search and repackage information rather than true intelligence.\nMaitha pushes back, arguing that the tool feels smarter because it remembers context and gives answers tailored to the user.\nThe future of personalized AI assistantsThe two joke about everyone eventually having their own bot with a personalized voice and style.\nThey imagine a world where people rely on AI for everyday advice, emotional support, and even voice cloning for navigation and household use.\nWhy convenience weakens human connectionMaitha argues that AI makes it too easy to ask questions without building the social bonds that used to come from asking a parent, friend, or relative.\nVishnu agrees that people are asking more questions without processing the answers or reflecting on consequences.\nTechnology as a tool, not the problemVishnu repeatedly says the issue is not AI itself but addiction, overuse, and letting the tool control behavior.\nHe compares modern information access to earlier tools like manuals, libraries, and dictionaries, saying every generation had a version of this shift.\nParents, kids, and the loss of guidanceMaitha argues that kids today are exposed to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/J5lkWfd_kMCVwf_HuY-mYUooVuHnsQi_iG7h-b1VCIM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YWU2/OGY1Y2VhOWIwMWFh/MmI1ZDBkYjEyZjg3/MzdhZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}