She Turned Her Whole Life Into Training Data—For an AI Baby
AI & I
2025/12/10
She Turned Her Whole Life Into Training Data—For an AI Baby
She Turned Her Whole Life Into Training Data—For an AI Baby

AI & I
2025/12/10
In this episode, comedian and science communicator Sarah Rose Siskind dives into the quirky intersection of AI, creativity, and pregnancy, revealing how she’s using large language models not just as tools, but as collaborators and even companions through life’s unpredictable moments.
Sarah Rose Siskind shares her experimental project FetusGPT—an LLM trained exclusively on the audio environment surrounding her unborn child, from Seinfeld reruns to sleep sounds—highlighting how narrow, personal data shapes AI behavior much like early human language acquisition. She demonstrates how AI fuels her comedy writing by simulating brainstorming sessions and generating satirical content, though it often lacks the surprise essential to humor. Beyond creativity, AI plays a practical role in health: Siskind used ChatGPT to interpret medical data, optimize nutrition during pregnancy, and navigate emotional anxieties, including fears about pregnancy symptoms. These cases illustrate AI’s growing role in personalized health and emotional support, especially where traditional systems fall short. The conversation also touches on deeper themes, like gendered differences in knowledge production and the relational trust needed in both therapy and human-AI interactions, underscoring that while AI reflects what we feed it, its value ultimately depends on human judgment, context, and intention.
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FetusGPT once referenced pedophilia, showing how AI inherits risks from unfiltered training data.
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Judging early LLMs harshly is as unfair as judging a toddler's comedy skills in one interaction
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AI can simulate a writer's room to create SNL-style jokes
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We can detect ChatGPT-written tweets with 90% accuracy.
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ChatGPT detected life-threatening low platelets when doctors were unavailable
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AI 提醒不要過度依賴技術來控制未出生的孩子
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Female-authored writings exhibit holistic, interdisciplinary integration unlike male-specialized works
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ChatGPT provided emotional support during pregnancy fears