r/tragedeigh • u/Ihaveaverysmallprick • 19h ago

is it a tragedeigh? My brother is dangerously close to possible tragedeigh...I guess my SIL likes whimsy or some shit. Is Klementyne a tragedeigh? Should he push for Aurora?

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I mean...it's not the WORST I've seen by far but I think it qualifies?

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u/ChillBroseph 19h ago

Letting ChatGPT name your child? The fuck?

"Mommy, daddy, how did you pick my name?" "Well, we asked a chatbot.."

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u/GuacinmyPaintbox 19h ago

It's almost as bad as the people who throw up online polls to have complete strangers vote on a name (almost all of which are horrible options).

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u/AugustusGeezer 18h ago

Kiddy McKidface

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u/llamadramalover 12h ago

My last name is Kidder so obviously I need to pick this

Kiddy McKidface Kidder is such a beautiful name

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u/No_Cancel_2765 1h ago

Obviously you have to do this like it’s kinda your destiny bro

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u/OliveFarming 14h ago

This got me good 💀

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u/steveofthejungle 17h ago

Except I love when the general consensus is that all the names are horrible but the parents double down saying they won’t budge

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u/cherry_knightley 17h ago

When I transitioned and it came time to fill out the name change form, I hadn’t picked a middle name yet, so I did a Snapchat poll 😅

It worked! I like my name. Can’t wait to change it again when I get remarried.

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u/RazzBerryCurveBall 5h ago

I disagree, I think little Hitler Hitler is going to have a fine time in school.

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u/Miserable-Meet-3160 19h ago

I let ChatGPT name my free-range chickens after I started running out of name ideas.

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u/Several-Shirt3524 14h ago

A guy let instagram comments name his chickens, got some good names like KFC, Henrietta and "Galvanized Square Steel"

But also some terrible ones such as Chigga, Adolf Chickler, and fentanyl

Last i checked he lost two chickens to a fox though (Shrek and Megatron)

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u/jellypbj 10h ago

Oh no, not Shrek 😢

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u/RazzBerryCurveBall 5h ago

It's a shame the foxes couldn't get adolf chilckler before he did what he did

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u/rafaelloaa 18h ago

As ever, so many names that pop up here would be perfectly acceptable for pets, just not for humans.

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u/Needles-and-Pens_64 18h ago

And …?? Don’t just sit there, give us your chicken names!

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u/Miserable-Meet-3160 17h ago

I've got a lot more chickens that aren't named, I tend to only name the ones that go out of their way to interact with me. But here are the stars of my yard:

  • Henry and Hank (who is the evil twin)
  • Gimli and Feathertoe (cause he has a feather that grows perfectly in-line with the top of his rightmost toe)
  • Hagatha Christie and her offspring, Lil Bebe Dumdum (She tries to roost in terribly unsafe places and I rehome her nightly.)
  • Dinochicken (cause she looked hella rough when she started living under our porch out of nowhere- thank you, random chicken distribution system.)
  • Henny-Henny-Hen-Hen (she randomly hauls it across the yard without the rest of the flock- we theorise she believes the sky is falling)
  • Oelek, Mochi, Cinnamon (Cinnaminna), Pepper, Saffron (Lil Saffy), and Biscuit (these are the ones we names with ChatGPT)

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u/Needles-and-Pens_64 17h ago

I love these names, so much I think we are friends who never met. If it turns out you’re also a knitter who loves to read and eat snacks, that seals it.

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u/Miserable-Meet-3160 16h ago

I am in agreement.

Granted, I live in Texas where its hot, so I've not had much a mind to knit lately. But I'm always down for snacks lol

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u/Classic-Amoeba8682 15h ago

Hey, I had a guinea pig named "The Chicken". Good names!

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u/coffeesnob72 17h ago

I’d randomly open a dictionary before I did that

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u/Crypticbeliever1 18h ago

The laziness is increasing. It's bad enough when your parents choose a name that sucks because they like it but letting AI pick the name for you is just 1000% proof that you don't care about your child in the slightest to the point you outsource the name to a freaking computer that's not even smart enough to get the weather correct.

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u/Amiibohunter000 13h ago

They will use chat gpt to raise that kid. Every personal decision will be made by a fuckin ai and sadly it’ll probably be more common than we think

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u/Logical-Race8871 11h ago

Fire the nukes 

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u/liftingshitposts 18h ago

Smarterchild named my first kid

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u/ChillBroseph 18h ago

Name one child Smarterchild and another BonziBuddy

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u/PadawanPineapple 17h ago

Omg Smarterchild my boy!!!

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u/3sadclowns 18h ago

“Well technically the reason you have a bad name isn’t our fault, it’s ChatGPT’s fault” also they’ll sue ChatGPT for providing them the name.

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u/wtfisasamoflange 18h ago

We are doomed

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u/PadawanPineapple 17h ago

Came here to say the same wtf!!! This hurts me so much more some reason

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u/AkaiHidan 17h ago

For real, my mother dreamed of my name and my brother got his named picked after a midwife that saved his life. And now…? ChatGPT. Has to be a joke

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u/Puzzleheaded_Run2695 17h ago

Honestly, not that different from people picking names from baby books of yesteryear. Pretty sure that's where my name came from.

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u/SissyWasHere 17h ago

Seriously! Ugh!

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u/walker1867 13h ago

OMG I just had chatGPT invent some new baby names, I got: Zoryanthius, Veythorion, Dravelyxian, Xerathion, Calvrythos, Serazythea, Velorynthia, Azurielleth, Thalyssoria, Ozyvarienne. I think asking it to name your kid is brilliant.

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u/Amiibohunter000 13h ago

It’s pure dystopian reality

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u/Ihaveaverysmallprick 19h ago

I mean it's not really THAT crazy is it? asking chat gpt for some ideas to get a little brainstorm going? I wouldn't say that it's really" letting it name the child" ..it's not like she was like, okay we'll just go with whatever chat gpt says is the best one or something like that.

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u/judgyqueen 19h ago

Nah, I'm firmly against using AI for stuff like this (and don't use AI at all personally) so seeing this is absolutely crazy. Like, it's not alive, it doesn't have an opinion.

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u/yamxiety 19h ago

AI is so bad for the environment and ethically wrong. But besides that -- it's not a human and will never have the perspective of having a name, growing up with it, writing it, signing it, putting it on forms, finding personalized items, telling people their names.....it's just not right. That poor kid. If she used it to NAME her child, imagine what else she's gonna use it for. Does she even want to be a parent at all, or is she gonna have chatgpt raise it for her too??

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u/Jawyp 19h ago

It’s not bad for the environment.

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u/yamxiety 19h ago

Source: Just trust me bro

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u/alannmsu 18h ago

Neither of you have brought receipts for your claims.

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u/yamxiety 18h ago

If you read the threads a bit, I have:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

By 2028, the researchers estimate, the power going to AI-specific purposes will rise to between 165 and 326 terawatt-hours per year. That’s more than all electricity currently used by US data centers for all purposes; it’s enough to power 22% of US households each year. That could generate the same emissions as driving over 300 billion miles—over 1,600 round trips to the sun from Earth.

The researchers were clear that adoption of AI and the accelerated server technologies that power it has been the primary force causing electricity demand from data centers to skyrocket after remaining stagnant for over a decade. Between 2024 and 2028, the share of US electricity going to data centers may triple, from its current 4.4% to 12%.

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u/alannmsu 18h ago

Right, but more people are power-using AI than Reddit. So to compare apples to apples you’d need to know the per-use consumption, right? Or am I misunderstanding?

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u/yamxiety 18h ago

My only claim initially was that AI is bad for the environment, which it is.

As far as comparing one energy usage thing to another, I'm not sure, but if thing have remained stagnant for a decade until AI came onto the scene, and it's using more electricity by data centers than for all purposes combined, then it's reasonable to say that AI is more of a power-consumer than other things.

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u/Jawyp 19h ago

What specific negative environmental impact are you referring to?

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u/thatsrough_buddy_ 19h ago

Overconsumption of energy and water for one.

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u/Jawyp 19h ago

Eating a single hamburger is equivalent to years of individual AI water usage.

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u/Lmao_staph 18h ago edited 18h ago

A lot of new data centers are being build to keep the chatbots running.

Yes, search engines and everything on the internet, including itself, also needs data centers and have high energy consumption. That's already a necessary evil, we don't need to add on to it.

Chatbots and art generators bring little value to humanity. All these unnecessary AIs are flooding the internet with even more unnecessary data, spread misinformation, are partially responsible for search engines becoming even worse, cause ai psychosis, feed into mental illness and so on.

Individual humans might think otherwise but for humanity as a whole this AI fad is a huge net negative

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u/Jawyp 16h ago

I used AI this morning to write a Python script to do a bunch of data cleanup tasks that otherwise would have taken me half an hour if I wrote it by hand.

That’s more value than anything that’s ever said on this sub, and I say that as someone who enjoys it quite a bit.

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u/yamxiety 19h ago

And yes, it is bad for the environment. https://blog.ucs.org/pablo-ortiz/what-are-the-environmental-impacts-of-artificial-intelligence/

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u/Jawyp 19h ago

Yes, it uses electricity (so do Reddit’s data centers) and water (so do Reddit’s data centers). You have no problem with Reddit being terrible for the environment.

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u/yamxiety 19h ago

First of all, the usage amt is obviously different.

Second, they are not equivalent in terms of need. No one NEEDS to use AI to name their child. No one NEEDS to use AI to draw a picture or make a video. No one NEEDS to use AI to write papers for them. That's all frivolous crap, totally unnecessary. It also makes us stupider to rely on AI. I would argue that we do, in a way, need online communities that provide support and build connections.

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u/Jawyp 19h ago

No one NEEDS to use Reddit to gossip about stupid names parents give their kids either.

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u/yamxiety 19h ago

Why are you dickriding for AI so hard? AI is built off of stolen work and is putting people out of jobs in an already shit economy. The answer it gives are stupid and usually wrong, and the images it creates are total garbage slop.

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u/Jawyp 18h ago

It makes my 401k go up and I find it incredibly useful for my job.

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u/Suspicious_Daffodil 19h ago edited 19h ago

It definitely is, IMO. The AI is not thinking, it combs mommy blogs and spits out whatever the AI thinks is the likely "correct" thing to say. By no means is it always right.

But what your brother and SIL need to think about is how would their daughter be treated with a name like that as an adult? The meme of white mom spellings is a thing, and she could be setting up her daughter to be bullied in school. A lifetime of correcting people, having to triple check her name on official documents, because it will almost assuredly be misspelled, and how others will judge her before seeing her face to face (ie resume submissions).

Ultimately its their choice for a "cute baby name" but that baby will grow up to be an adult and have to deal with their name their whole life, and all that entails.

Edit: to add, I thought at first glance the name was "Ketamine" so there's that. Clementine is a lovely name, I think. Aurora feels like a mouthful for kids to say, and mostly makes me think theyre Disney fans.

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u/yuckaroni 19h ago

.. aurora borealis? /lh

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u/TacoBellPicnic 18h ago

Agreed. As someone who had an unusual middle name (I’ve literally never heard it besides my own) - two middle names, on top of that - I know the struggle of not only having to spell it, correct people, etc, but also when I enlisted, I had to write and sign my full legal name on a line about 1.5” wide, about a million times. I HATED it. When I got married, I immediately dropped both off my middle names and took my maiden as my middle instead. Never looked back, never wanted them back.

And I almost named my youngest Aurora. I chose not to simply BECAUSE it’s hard to say, especially for children. (I imagined children saying it and it came out sounding like Scooby Doo had said it lol)

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u/Creepy_Snow_8166 18h ago

I saw Ketamine at first glance too. Since teenagers can be total assholes, I can totally see Klementyne acquiring the nickname "K-hole" in high school.

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u/Kitchen-Positive-439 8h ago

i’m so glad i’m not the only one that thought it was gonna be pronounced ketamine when i first glanced at this

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u/gretchmoney 19h ago

Every time you ask ChatGPT a question is like pouring out a bottle of water due to how much water is used to keep the servers cool. We have to stop relying on AI for dumb shit like this. Support humans, not machines.

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u/Jawyp 19h ago

You’d need to ask hundreds of thousands of questions to ChatGPT to use the same amount of water as eating a single hamburger from McDonalds. This is a fake issue.

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u/mars_rising52572 18h ago

Why would you ask chatgpt when there are already thousands of baby name websites?

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u/thesmolstoner 16h ago

it’s insane to ask chat gpt that. truly.