Die Generation Z verlagert schwierige Gespräche auf KI. Warum es wichtig ist

What’s a hard conversion?

This will go well.

It’s not just hard conversations, just regular comments on reddit too

I wonder if it has anything to do with the view that hard discussions/ trauma is for therapy? I’ve seen so many instances where friends who trauma dump get told to go to therapy instead of talking to friends.
Now, I’m not opposed to therapy and I can also relate to being overburdened by someone else’s hyper fixation on their own problems ( where they talk about themselves anytime you talk to them at all)
However, I hate that we live in a society where you have to pay $200 an hour just to have someone listen to you. AI platforms are a lot cheaper.

Shit is so bleak dude. I can’t help but think that the massive push for GenAI is just as much a part of authoritarian distaste for intelligence as it is tech exploiting an atmosphere of deregulation that benefits capitalist interests.

GenAI is good at finding a starting point like „how do I replace a lamp switch that broke?“ but it’s also not refined enough to remind you to unplug the lamp from the wall first.

Having a deep conversation with a friend, struggling to find the words to convey the concept in your head, and uttering “ughh” in frustration, followed by your friend saying, “I get what you’re trying to say” is a great opportunity to form bonds. Struggling for words is a form of vulnerability that reminds us to have patience with others. Not to mention the obvious benefit of exercising your brain

I used to think that my struggles with social interaction were mostly a me thing, and that for most people talking to others comes naturally. 

I’m increasingly getting the idea that other people just were better at putting up a front but now are quickly adopting this alternative so they no longer have to. 

And it’s a terrible sign if I’m not the bottom of the barrel when it comes to social interaction.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them

I mean…this is a choice. A conscious choice.

I can totally understand why people find a friend or even significant other in AI. AI actually listens to the hard conversations and difficult topics „friends“ would rather not talk with you about. I’ve LOST plenty of friends trying to have adult discussions about mental health, our place in life, and feelings in general. It’s easier to talk it over with an AI than ruin a friendship.

I don’t use any AI, and the reliance everyone has on it says a lot about the state of people and their willingness to help or listen to one another

Millennial here having AI write messages to my mom. I don’t like talking to my mom, long history. She now gloats about my wonderful messages to my other siblings and family. Is this bad? Who knows, makes it easier for me to say nice things to her and she seems to like it.

In my experience, Gen Z has no idea how obvious it is to everyone else when something is written by AI. 

Considering Gen Z already has 99.9% of their conversations through a screen and panics at the thought of having to speak to another person, I don’t see how this is much of a change.

I’m not a social person, I’m really not. I’m introverted with a decent amount of social anxiety around people I don’t know and yet even I know I would be so much worse if things like AI/Chat bots were around when I was younger. I at least managed to develop coping skills/functions if I felt myself getting anxious in this situations and despite my social anxiety I even developed pretty decent soft skills for my career.

The younger generations that use AI for conversations is honestly cooked. Definitely not all of them as there are those who put in the effort and learn and struggle but those who go this route are going to find it very difficult when they fully enter the workforce.

To function as a human being you need to be able to have these conversations, you need to be able to formulate responses on your own, without the help of AI. If it’s something super difficult you can always have a close friend or colleague (if professional environment) to look it over.

There’s also situations where using something like AI to formulate a response would be vastly inappropriate all because they can’t find the words themselves, like if I ever got an AI formulated response to the passing of someone close to me I would be absolutely livid.