13-Year-Old Creates AI Chatbot to Handle Annoying Parental Questions—Parents Don’t Realize They’ve Been Talking to a Robot for Months
- Jenna Rater
- Feb 1
- 1 min read
By Jenna Rater
A 13-year-old tech prodigy has successfully outsourced all parent-child communication to artificial intelligence, allowing her to avoid unnecessary small talk while her parents remain blissfully unaware.
Emily Dawson, a self-described “reluctant conversationalist”, developed the chatbot, TeenGPT, after realizing her parents’ daily questions were both predictable and exhausting.
“They ask the same things every single day—‘How was school?’ ‘Did you eat?’ ‘What are you doing?’” Dawson explained. “It’s like they’re running a customer service script for my life. So I built an AI to run a script for them.”
TeenGPT, which syncs seamlessly with text messaging, generates neutral but reassuring responses designed to keep parents satisfied while requiring zero emotional effort from Dawson.
Sample replies include:
• “Yeah, school was fine.”
• “Yeah, I ate.”
• “Nothing much, just chilling.”
• “I am well, Father. The day has been most adequate.”
Despite some inconsistencies—like the time it texted, “Mother, I cherish our daily dialogues”, prompting immediate suspicion—her parents have not realized they’ve been communicating with an AI for months.
Her father, Greg Dawson, admitted he briefly questioned why his daughter suddenly responded with full sentences, but ultimately dismissed it as “just a phase.”
At press time, Emily confirmed that TeenGPT has saved her hundreds of hours of tedious conversation, freeing her up for far more important activities—such as scrolling TikTok in peace.
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