Behold the final boss of tech-brained overprotective dads. Worried about his son talking to strangers on Roblox, he used AI to create a clone of the game so he could construct a false reality where all the players his son talks to are AI — without telling the poor kid.
“I vibecoded a safer Roblox for my son,” began the dad, Adam Lyttle, in a now viral post on X. “The game is populated with recordings of other play throughs (giving the illusion of playing with others).”
“And there’s even a chat from the bots talking to each other,” Lyttle explained. “He can talk with the bots and they chat back using ChatGPT.”
Lyttle’s post was met with swift backlash, with many raising the obvious trust issues this could cause in his young child — or the simple fact that this was overkill when you could implement stronger parental controls, or just have the kid play a different game, instead.
