‘Who’s the daddy?’: ‘lazy’ Hong Kong man turns to ChatGPT for baby names prompting angry wife to ask who real father is
- City expectant father turns to artificial intelligence in search of ideas for names for his soon-to-be-born child
- While many online observers agree with his wife that he is ‘lazy’, others say he is simply keeping up with the times and should be praised
A Hong Kong husband who turned to artificial intelligence, or AI, to come up with a name for his soon-to-be-born child has angered the woman who is carrying their baby.
The “lazy” husband’s use of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence programme popular worldwide, for name ideas led his exasperated wife to ask online: “Who is the daddy? Him or AI?”
The mum-to-be made a post on the city’s anonymous forum DiscussHK in late March, entitled: “I asked my husband to help name our baby, but he asked AI.”
In the post, she said her husband went onto ChatGPT and asked: “Can you help me find a Chinese name for my soon-to-be-born baby? He is a boy. I hope he will be intelligent, handsome, tall and lucky.”
The machine then suggested some names with auspicious meanings, for example, “Zhiyu”, which means “wise universe” and Meifeng”, which means “beautiful mountains”.
The expectant father was not happy with these options, so he said: “Any other suggestions?”