We grew up in a world before AI so we have a frame of reference to compare it to. Just think about the people born into this slopfilled landscape where the content their young minds absorb will overwhelmingly be AI generated. It will be the normalized default for them. There is going to be a much sharper generational divide than the internet savvy millennial vs tech illiterate boomer that we saw in the early 00s.

[–] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know this is a pipedream, little more than expecting the kiddies to magically rise above their material conditions, but I hope that it actually results is a reaction against AI and that being born into a world of slop gives a significant portion of the coming generation some 6th sense to tell slop better than we can.

I'm hoping for some idealist fantasy because if not, gen alpha and their successors won't be disappointments, they'll be downright incapable of coherent thought. They'll let LLMs and other misapplied tools do their thinking for them in every aspect of life.

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Those are the stakes currently