Why Young People Cringe at Gen AI: It's Like Talking to an Old Person
Evgenii42 · reddit · 2026-08-06
A Reddit user argues that young people cringe at generative AI because its output is mediocre. As people age, they become more conformist, and their brains, like AI, regress to the mean, producing the most probable outcome. Thus, seeing AI output is like talking to an old person: wise but predictable and dull.
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