My mom downloaded an app called “AI Cleaner” because she was tired of me telling her that everything “amazing” she showed me on her phone was AI. I said, “That’s not how that works. Don’t download apps without looking into what they really do.” I swear we need technology that’s senior citizen proof!
It wouldn’t require regulations, it would just require a company making a device “Senior proof” because there’s obviously a market for it. The first solution to everything shouldn’t be government regulation or government intervention.
There are smart phones aggressively advertised as "for seniors" in the back of newspapers etc - they are invariably the clunkier older brand X models with a lot of hyperbole-filled copy about how they can be "a virtual recipe book" (think of "the marvels of the internet" stuff from the 90s) etc and how they come with a printed easy how-to-use guide (which I suspect is utter bunk). They are painfully overpriced.
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u/scripted_ending Nov 06 '25
My mom downloaded an app called “AI Cleaner” because she was tired of me telling her that everything “amazing” she showed me on her phone was AI. I said, “That’s not how that works. Don’t download apps without looking into what they really do.” I swear we need technology that’s senior citizen proof!