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'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us

216 points · 323 comments · YeGoblynQueenne

  1. keiferski · · focus · HN ↗
    In the world of arts/media, I think AI basically only has a future as a hidden thing. Openly admitting that you used AI to make something will be used against you, in order to dismiss your work. For a lot of people/things, it already is - see Hank Green, or the daily comments about "I don't want to read what you didn't write."

    Expect a massive marketing reversal in 6-12 months, when every "AI-powered" company removes the keyword from their home page.

    1. DaSHacka · · focus · HN ↗
      I actually agree with your prediction (on a longer time-scale though) but because I'm convinced it'll go the opposite, where AI begins to blend in to services people use in the background more and more, and people slowly move on and stop caring about it, both in terms of hype and doomerism.
      1. NichoPaolucci · · focus · HN ↗
        I have heard multiple arguments that point towards this future, where AI largely becomes "normal" technology. I'm hopeful for it. There are tons of great use cases for AI, but it absolutely should not be in... everything.

        This feels similar to the timeline that lots of new technologies go through. Blockchain (put that into everything!). The internet + dot com era were probably similar as well.

        Treating ANYTHING like an everything tool just seems to feel this way. There's no reason I want to use AI to buy something on Amazon. Or plan a vacation for me. I absolutely want to use AI to scan through 5000 files and find that one thing I was looking for though. Different applications.

        1. _rutinerad · · focus · HN ↗
          I almost always use Claude when shopping online, to find unknown unknowns. And I loved using Claude to plan a recent trip, instead of not bothering to plan at all because it’s so tedious. Just as a counterexample.
          1. NichoPaolucci · · focus · HN ↗
            I suppose I meant more of “their” AI (Rufus?).

            With your personal agent, you can use it for everything YOU want to do and I can use mine for everything I want to do.

            But we both log onto Amazon and are greeted by Rufus, a stranger that I’m sure most people have no interest in using.

            And maybe shopping is a bad example, but AI is getting jammed into EVERYTHING and I’m sure that’s not the end result.

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