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StellarStoic | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Dumb down one of the smartphones lying around the house, install chatGPT and give this new device to kids :)
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OT | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Don't know if I can trust chatGPT alone with my kids. I want an offline version, limited to dictionary functionality.
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hh | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Why use an LLM for that?
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OT | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What else us able to do it?
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hh | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A normal dictionary... It's the perfect, child-friendly UI: a box where you input the word you want to know. If you want to make it audio, I guess that's trivial nowadays.

Why make it harder?
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OT | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Just so you can interact with it. Ask it questions, give more examples or simplify it a little.