ChatGPT is taking over immigrant kids’ least favorite chore: translating for their parents

Immigrant parents (lovingly) say they're replacing their kids' English translating skills with ChatGPT.

Michelle Fang was visiting her father last year in their New Jersey home when she noticed he used ChatGPT to help him write emails and make work presentations. It was a departure from how she used to print out his PowerPoints and help edit his English.

“I would go in with a pen to mark everything up,” said Fang, 25.

But now, the San Francisco-based tech community manager’s skills are, apparently, getting phased out by technology — at least at home. And it’s a shared experience for other adult children of immigrants, they say.

“He doesn’t ask me to help with English, grammar and technical language anymore — he’s replaced me with ChatGPT,” said Fang, whose father is a first-generation Chinese American.

Others say they’ve also stepped in as translators for their parents during their childhood — and that these duties continue into adulthood. But the launch of ChatGPT is offloading some of their responsibilities onto the artificial intelligence tool.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/immigrant-parents-replacing-kids-chatgpt-rcna167618

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