From the original Verge article:
And even as they utilize these tools, vast swaths of young people are deeply acrimonious and even resentful of the AI-centric future that many feel is being forced on them.
Thank god they see it for the ideological apparatus it is.
This is fucking hilarious to watch given how AI obsessed people will breathlessly claim that AI is the future and everyone thinks that way.
If AI is the future and not just a shitty scam that devours water and energy resources while stealing from artists why does Gen-Z hate it?
This is fucking hilarious to watch given how AI obsessed people will breathlessly claim that AI is the future and everyone thinks that way.
If people where obsessed about it, Microsoft would charge a subscription fee for it. Instead they shoving it into every program for free to find out what sticks and where people might really use it.
I mean, I get your point, but saying “this generation hates this, so they must be right” can be applied to boomers and their hate of black people, gays, trans, young people, bikes, ev’s, busses, windmills, vaccinations, women’s right etc too.
Edit. Couldn’t spell vaccination
Yea, if you remove all context, you could make that argument. But if we narrowly focus on “the generations of the future overwhelmingly see this as a problem they must fix” then I think it stands to reason that the AI fanboys haven’t won everyone over yet, which is what the person you’re replying to was actually saying.
The Boomers are the past, Gen Z is the future.
WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE IN MY REAL LIFE SOCIAL CIRCLES??? WHERE???
So, Ill tell you a quick story. I went to the grocery store yesterday. I go to the human check out lane.Two young people, both around 20 years my guess are running it. Im a bit nervous, and thought I might had been rude giving the bagger my stack of reuseable bags. I apologize, “Im sorry I hope Im not being wierd, Ive stopped using the self-check since they installed the AI”. They both immediately agree, that they have done the same. The baggar states he feels it’s important to talk to people and have interaction, with the cashier backing his statement up. I mention how I always feel rushed in the lane, as to not hold up the next person, the cashier tells me its okay to take space and there is no reason to rush. I also at some point stated how I am practicing giving up control over the bagging process, the cashier goes, “like therapy”.
I was SO delighted these young people not only denounced Ai, but also emphisized the importance of human connection.
Ive been struggling hard, for weeks now, and they made my whole day. I had a good day yesterday if for no other reason those kids gave me hope.
Thank you for sharing your story. It was very touching and I’m glad the young folks made you feel good.
Indeed, as someone else said elsewhere in this post:
The kids are alright.
And you’re awesome. Just the way you are. Don’t rush for anything and keep being you.
In my experience, only the dumb people are excited about AI. The rest use it sparingly at best and generally don’t like it.
It’s surely not about intelligence, it’s an ideology thing. I know people with PhDs who will viciously defend LLMs and think they are the future. I think that many people just choose to ignore the problems. Recently I had a discussion about whether an LLM should be integrated into the document management system of a company. There were well educated and intelligent people there who weren’t conviced that just one hallucination would turn such a system into a legal nightmare.
That may be true but it hasn’t been my experience which is why I phrased my comment that way
you hang out with wrong circles
The kids are alright.
the “Incredible Way”, from the article
The situation has gotten to the point where a baffling proportion of Gen Zers are going as far as to intentionally undermine their bosses’ AI initiatives…44 percent of polled Gen Z workers said they’re “sabotaging their company’s AI strategy in at least one way,” from entering proprietary company information into chatbots to refusing to use AI tools outright.
Lol the kids are not using the tools … Yeah, if the tools suck, of course they would not use them.
It’s always been about addiction and control. Ai’s purpose is to be Facebook on steroids.
Even if you know it constantly lies, manipulates and censors, it’s everywhere, and soon you won’t be able to turn it off on your phone. It’s a machine, and it will wear you down and manipulate you, till they control your every thought.
It’s not about answering your questions, it about owning you in body, mind and soul.
Exactly, it’s about that age-old tendency of humans to enslave one another. AI is simply the latest and greatest type of shackle.
While at the same time replacing any value you can create in the employment realm.
I’m not sure I buy that part. I’ve been testing all the big names for about a year. If I know the answer they are always wrong. They fuck up and lie so much they are useless. And when Microsoft used them to “fix” window it just fucked it up even worse. I’ve never encountered one in the wild that actually can do a job.
You’re looking at it from the wrong angle.
If a billionaire says AI replaces you at your job, but the AI fucks up 100% of the time, but humans keep buying the fucked up product, then the billionaire is happy.
I didn’t say the AI was better than you at doing the job. I said it replaced any value you have as an employee. It may only do your job with 40% accuracy, but it offsets the value by costing $0 an hour.
There’s a scene in Idiocracy where a woman puts her credits into the machine. The machine is supposed to dispense a product, but the machine malfunctions. Dispenses no product. This leaves her with no more credits, but also no product.
In the billionaires eyes, this is better than paying a retail employee to dispense the product. It’s not better for the customer, but its better for the billionaires.
This is the world we’re heading towards.
LLMs absolutely do not cost $0/hour. They’re heavily discounting it’s actual cost in order to gain users and even that discounted price is cost prohibitive in many cases.
Well, I meant to the billionaire owners. Yes, the electricity and all that money to keep the data center up and running is resource heavy, but these companies are also getting kickbacks from the cities they build these places in. Tax free, plus grants from the government. That’s why they’re pushing it so hard. Cut the tax loopholes, cut the grants, and yes it’s extremely expensive. But as it stands, they aren’t the one footing the bill. We are. As tax payers.
Finally
AI is good for making shitpost memes, and that’s it.
Nah. What makes shitpost memes funny is that a human spent time and effort making that. It isnt even good at that.
AI could never hope to conjure an image this beautiful without stealing it.
