My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”
Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner
Kiddo: that’s AI
My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”
Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner
Kiddo: that’s AI

Nature is healing.❤️🩹
@Daojoan Ha, great! 😁
Our 7 year old just learned sarcasm. He's very good at that as well. The deadpan look on his face is almost infuriating.
In near future may use "trumping" as cheating in the worst way.
@petealexharris @Freedman @poponion @Daojoan I like the British usage as a polite term for passing gas.
Based on that:
to trump = to pass hot air from one's mouth or nether regions, especially if it is difficult to tell which end is which
@WizardOfDocs
Obama, just to make a point.
@poponion @Daojoan "trumpen" is actually an old german word meaning "making a fool of someone" or "to walk all over someone"...
This seems not to be made up 🙈
https://fwb-online.de/go/trumpen.h2.3v_1646320546
@RichRARobi Nellie the elephant tracked her punk
And ran him to ground in the circus
There he was, hiding amongst the clowns
Not at all easy to spot
That was the version I used to sing as a kid :)
@woe2you noooo omg this will backfire
nothing makes something uncool faster than olds deciding to do it after they saw youth doing it
That worries me. We are raising a generation habituated to rejecting information that doesn't suit them.
Sure their bullshit detectors catch a higher proportion of the bullshit, but along with this is a higher rate of false detections.
When real data and real evidence comes out that doesn't fit their preconceived ideas, will they process it and allow it to affect their views? Or will they say "That's AI."
Might AI further enable and normalize preemptive rejection of facts?
I wonder if the share of people rejecting information that doesn't suit them has really increased?
It is surprising how many people come up with "alternative facts" but maybe internet only allows to see them better than before.
I am optimistic that kids understanding AI is not a reliable source of information will also be able to identify reliable sources.
@hosford42 @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender I also think it's problematic. Sure LLMs produce incredible amounts of bullshit but if everything that doesn't fit in your worldview becomes just "AI", that's really dangerous. And in this case it could be about bird meat, which is actually dinosaur meat, and that fact could spark the children's curiosity if it was taken seriously.
The point is AI makes it easy to dismiss basically anything because some things it produces can seem very real
I'm glad you got my point. From other replies it seems I may have expressed it poorly.
Skepticism and critical thinking are valuable and have always been around (RE: whether I feel the same about someone saying "that's crap"). But we are now engaging in activities that make people reject *everything* as fake by default. That's dangerous.
@eruwero @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender I don't see anything leading them to do that more often than is already human nature.
Calling BS "AI" is a reaction to a different problem: Being overly credulous and accepting AI slop just because it fits your worldview, while rejecting *reason* because it's too much work.
You don't see headlines about people rejecting AI and it leading to a filter-bubble and psychotic breaks. You see those headlines about people *using* AI.
@hosford42 @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender wrt the second paragraph: I think they are kind of two sides of the same coin. Being overly credulous and accepting AI slop that fits your worldview and at the same time rejecting stuff that doesn't fit your worldview and claim it's just AI, whether or not that's true. I think "AI" is really dangerous when it comes to reinforcing bias. This is independent of the example of the OP though.
I don't quite get what you mean with the last part
@eruwero @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender
Re: the last part: There have been multiple news headlines about people following AI down the proverbial rabbit hole and ending up believing some real Alice in Wonderland stuff, sometimes life-destroying. Very bad for the mental health of vulnerable folks -- the ones who forget to use their critical reasoning skills to assess truth. I can probably find some links if you're interested.
I think anybody can dismiss anything they don't like, anytime, deciding they value feeling good over being grounded in reality. I see being bullshitted from a young age as a form of inoculation against this. There is no shortcut to doing the work, looking at the evidence, and thinking things through. There will be folks who opt for the lazy way regardless, but I don't think calling BS "AI" reinforces this. BS is BS, and people have been calling it out by one name or another since the dawn of humanity.
@eruwero @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender It's pure, automated sycophancy.
I'll have to come back with links later. Not feeling well ATM and my initial searches just came back with general articles about "AI psychosis" without example stories. They're definitely out there, though! Wikipedia even has a page on it now.