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A.I. wants to help you start the day. Its suggestions? Drink coffee and get dressed.
“I let A.I. decide my morning routine — here’s how it’s going,” the influencer Grace Lemire tells the camera, yawning and stretching. She “desperately” needs a fresh morning routine “but didn’t have the brain power to plan it out.” She films herself inputting some parameters into the Anthropic chatbot Claude’s interface — she calls her version Claudia — and it spits back a schedule for her:
7 — wake up
7:15 — skincare & makeup
7:45 — breakfast
8:15 — meditation & quick win
8:25 — coffee & clean up
8:30 — work.
Lemire makes a montage of herself going through these motions, curling her hair, lighting a candle, eating French toast and grapes, un the dishwasher, placing a mug under her espresso machine. A week in, she says, she’s loving it. She’s thriving! Thank you, Claudia.
The morning-routine video is a classic genre of social media — a montage that’s part self-documentary and part self-help inspiration. It’s as though watching someone make her coffee, do her makeup or even just open her blinds in quick jump-cut succession is designed to make you feel as if you’re just a few steps away from a routine that will unlock everything.
Our curiosity about other people’s mornings long predated TikTok, of course. Benjamin Franklin published his daily schedule, in which he woke up at 5 a.m. and asked himself what good he could do that day. But modern self-help culture has fueled interest in other people’s routines. People want to know the secrets of chief executives and creative people they admire and want to emulate. Toni Morrison made coffee and watched the sunrise; Warren Buffett drinks Coca-Cola and stops at the McDonald’s drive-through; Jeff Bezos doesn’t look at his phone and spends his first hour “puttering.” In recent years, our voyeurism has trickled down to influencers and ordinary people leading ordinary lives: moms managing drop-off and work calls, office workers telling you how to squeeze in exercise.
More recently, the robots are getting involved, and they seem prepared with uniform suggestions. @UpgradingKatie, an influencer who focuses on integrating A.I. into her life, shows us what ChatGPT tells her to do each morning: Drink a “huge glass of warm water” and “10 minute zone cleaning” are among its instructions.
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