Which is closest to your view?
The SMBC guy.
New book: A City on Mars (Nov 2)
Co-author of Soonish
Illustrator of Open Borders
Scop of Bea Wolf.
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What's the oldest thing you still think of as "the new kind" because of how old you were when it came out?
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
Well looky here
(For some reason it hadn't even occurred to me that these would be in luscious hardcover.)
Later Pew data breaks out into ethnic and socioeconomic categories. Finds, to simplify, that the more privileged you are the less likely you are to use Ai https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/02/24/demographic-differences-in-how-teens-use-and-view-ai/
Now it could be the people in my bubble just have particularly enlightened kids who also always tell the truth, but one suspects that at least some people are getting teens to tell them exactly what they'd like to hear.
Mostly I find this funny, but given the relatively high incidence of use for emotional support, honest conversation would probably be preferable.
So, in my social media bubble, I've repeatedly had people my age say young people don't like Ai. And, in these stories, the young people in question typically give appealing-to-millennials stories about not using Ai. But here's a survey from Pew that's likely underestimating since it's 6 months old.
Most interesting is the near 50% use for fun! So you can't say it's just because they're forced to use it.
