The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It

Post by anianz » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:32 PM UTC

isoprophlex wrote: post #20

anianz wrote: post #13

> Freystaetter and Gottlieb both say that instead of their own generation, they are more worried about Gen Alpha and other young people that come after them, who lose their chance to develop healthy relationships with technologies when they become mandatory and ubiquitous. I remember similar concerns from Millennials about Gen-Z with the Internet and social media. In the end the Internet and Social Media Gen-Z grew u…

I have three (gen A) kids, of which two are of the age to have opinions on this. They tell me I don't have a real job because I just tell the computer what to do, and I don't do the thing myself (to which I can't help but respond that they're absolutely right). If I try to spin them a bullshit story, they tell me how can that be true and maybe I got brainwashed by AI. Also they hate ads with a passion. If anything, I…

Post by tarr11 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:34 PM UTC

Post by Eric_WVGG » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:35 PM UTC

alephnerd wrote: post #23

jdw64 wrote: post #2

The irony is that AI is best at replacing the work of the upper classes. Synthesizing different opinions, summarizing them, and producing outputs based on statistics are things AI does well. But AI is actually not very good at replacing an entire lower-level worker’s job as a whole. It works well only when that work is broken down into smaller and smaller tasks. The core problem is this: the coercive force of AI use…

> The irony is that AI is best at replacing the work of the upper classes This is why the harshest critics of AI tend to be white collar workers of this social class. The same kinds that told coal miners and autoworkers to "learn to code" and called them deplorables for voting nativist in 2016. Any chance to build mutual trust was squandered. The jobs worst impacted by AI are jobs where most of the workers are Democr…

Post by bell-cot » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:35 PM UTC

cat_plus_plus wrote: post #8

It's the latest form of elitism - like in less sunny countries it's fashionable to be tanned because it means you are rich enough to have time to hang around on the beach while in sunny countries it's fashionable to be light skinned because you are rich enough that you don't have to work in the sun. Disdain for AI is a luxury belief of those who are either talented enough to draw / write / code without or are wealthy…

Post by esyir » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:37 PM UTC

School-Cotton wrote: post #22

Steve16384 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because lots of people, businesses and governments don't want to.

My impression is that The majority of people do want to.