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The kids are smarter than most people give them credit for. They see their future being destroyed in real time, and AI is only accelerating it and largely being
by pesus 6mo ago
The kids are smarter than most people give them credit for. They see their future being destroyed in real time, and AI is only accelerating it and largely being celebrated/promoted/used by the same people currently destroying their future. To them, there are few benefits beyond being able to cheat on their homework, and an enormous amount of downsides.
I think it's only a matter of time before we see some more serious, organized opposition to AI (and perhaps even the internet and other technologies) by these young people.
- mghackerlady 6mo agoI really hope it doesn't end in some Butlerian Jihad-esque scenario. I like computers, but they're tools. Nothing more than ethical slaves at most
- MiguelX413 6mo agoLike all technology, it's not question about it itself but rather how it's used.
- grvdrm 6mo ago> The kids are smarter than most people give them credit for When they aren't consumed by TikTok?
- ikr678 6mo agoFor some kids, they see their parents get themselves in a mountain of college debt, work for 50 years and struggle to afford necessities, and decide maybe trying to be a streamer/tiktokker is worth a gamble and could set them up for life instead.
- grvdrm 6mo agoMakes sense. I think it’s hard to argue against someone that uses the platform and others as an example of entrepreneurial pursuits. Not “all social media is bad” when to use different lens types.
- ryandrake 6mo agoIt's the modern day "I'm going to be a hollywood actor." Every one of my kid's friends has said at some point they were going to grow up to be a famous YouTube or TikTok streamer. The vast majority are not serious, and of those who are serious, the vast majority won't make it.
- eloisius 6mo agoYou might be surprised by how many of them are aware of the harms of social media, while acknowledging that it’s impossible not to engage with it. It’s not their fault we built the toxic slot machine world for them that we have. And besides, I’m pretty sure my boomer parents spend about as much time scrolling slop on Facebook as kids do on TikTok.
- grvdrm 6mo agoOh, parents no better. I have friends that do nothing other than check TikTok in down time. I do what I can to block and gate my own usage.