Dad built a fake Roblox to spy on his kid
Adam Little created a version of Roblox where his son thinks he's playing with other kids. He's not. It's a video game populated with recordings of old playthroughs and AI chatbots pretending to be real people.
The premise: Roblox is unsafe because you don't know who your kid is talking to online. Solution: build an entire simulation where he talks to no one but thinks he is.
This is parenting as deception theater. The kid gets the illusion of social play without the actual threat. Which means he also gets zero actual social connection, just a really elaborate puppet show dressed up as community.
I vibecoded a safer Roblox for my son He’s not allowed to play Roblox because we don’t know who he’s talking to So I created a version where he plays obbys 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. He can talk with the bots and they chat back using chatgpt
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