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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
AI 行业可能还没意识到一件事，在年轻人眼里，AI 正在变成一件很土的事情。
看到一位软件工程师分享的故事，挺有意思。
他的两个女儿分别是 18 岁和 19 岁，一个在英国读大学，一个在意大利。他发现，女儿身边的年轻人几乎都很讨厌 AI。
甚至女儿给朋友介绍他的时候，还会专门解释一句：「这是我爸，他是软件工程师，但放心，他不搞 AI，哈哈哈。」
在这些年轻人眼里，AI 就是「上一代人发明出来、现在却要我们来承受后果的东西，气候变化还不够吗？」
他们讨厌 AI 生成的垃圾内容淹没社交媒体，讨厌音乐被 AI 污染，讨厌越来越逼真的诈骗电话，更讨厌自己花了十几年培养的兴趣和技能突然被宣布没有价值。
为什么还要学建筑？为什么还要练乐器？如果 AI 什么都能做，这些努力还有什么意义？
我觉得这里面有一个挺有意思的代际冲突。
过去几十年，互联网、社交媒体、智能手机都是年轻人率先拥抱，然后逐渐渗透到上一代人的生活里。
但 AI 似乎正在出现一种相反的文化情绪。硅谷的中年科技精英每天兴奋地讨论 AGI、生产力革命和指数增长，年轻人却觉得这帮人正在毁掉他们喜欢的互联网。
更有意思的是后续的变化。
这位父亲发现，女儿和她们的朋友正在减少使用公开社交媒体，更多地在线下见面，把线上交流转移到只有真实朋友的私人群聊里。在她们看来，TikTok 和 Reels 都开始变得有点土了。
当然，这只是一个父亲观察到的小样本，但我觉得值得关注。
当互联网越来越难以区分真人和 AI，年轻人可能会开始把「真实」本身当成一种身份认同。
想想还挺讽刺的。科技公司拼命用 AI 让人们留在屏幕前，最后却可能把一部分年轻人逼回了现实世界。
Young people actively hate AI.
My two younger daughters are 19 and 18, both at universities - one in the UK the other in Italy. Through them, I happen to know quite a few kids their age.
And ALL OF THEM seem to universally hate AI.
To them it's "something old people invented that we now have to deal with... as if climate change wasnt enough"
AI is cringe. When they introduce me to their friends, they literally say "heyya, meet my dad, he's a software engineer but nonono, NOT IN AI, dont worry, hahah".
They hate it for flooding their social feeds with slop, ruining music, taking phone scams to the next level, also destroying careers & devaluing their hobbies - why become an architect, this skill is about to become worthless? Why learn a musical instrument if session musicians are already obsolete?
The outcome is interesting, though - they're spending less and less time on public social, meeting up IRL, moving their online lives into private group chats with actual verified friends. TikTok and Reels are increasingly cringe-something for old dudes.
Which, I guess, might be a net positive after all...
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
Nobel laureate @avalaina has documented Russian war crimes in Ukraine since its full-scale invasion. Her reaction to Trump saying Russia has been “fine”’ there?: “We document intentional murders of civilians every day…I'm sorry to say, but this presidential administration completely lost their ability to distinguish between good and evil.”
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Some of the people I know nearing retirement age are busy training AI to take their (and other people’s) jobs. If that doesn’t give you serious pause about the present what will?
PMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the US economy is booming.
He points to strong corporate profits, low unemployment & AI infrastructure spending.
But consumer confidence is at its lowest since 2014, inflation just rose to 3.7%, and 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan.
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
So at home Musk is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to get Ken Paxton elected to the Senate … abroad he is single-handedly trying to help Russia defeat Ukraine. This comes a year and a half after he destroyed USAID.
Musk is more than a cartoon villain. He’s a direct threat to democracy at home and peace abroad
Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcpBv
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
The richest man in the world is putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the Texas Senate campaign for a candidate so corrupt his own party impeached him and also playing God with military capabilities for U.S. allies. This is problematic, no?
WSJ scoop: Musk was the one who ordered the Starshield slowdown that blindsided Ukraine’s defenses. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
Something that keeps playing is my head at the moment is when Vance asked Zelenskyy if he’d even said thank you to the US. They must be just drowning in Russian propaganda.
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Here’s the truth America.
"American negotiators have been trying to push Ukraine into surrender for already almost two years, one and a half years now. Why Ukraine hasn't surrendered on Putin's terms is because Europe has been supporting Ukraine," High Representative Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday.
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
The weeks after this election are going to be absolutely depraved.
🚨#BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly considering quietly offering a full pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell after the midterms, but before the new Democratic Congress is sworn in in January. He allegedly believes she did nothing wrong.
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
Hegseth put Musk on a Pentagon future of warfare board on Sept. 30.
Musk needs to be removed from that board.
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
In which case starlink is entirely unreliable. If the CEO can, on a whim, decide to downgrade the service you are paying for, rendering it useless in the middle of a war, it is less than useless; it is a permanent knife to your throat.
Incredible scoop by my @WSJ colleagues: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
The whole World is watching as the US government and aligned Silicon Valley tech oligarchs try to destroy another democracy in South America. panamericandispatch.org/p/39…
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
It’s just not even in question any more is it. Just constant Kremlin talking points
Trump: “Russia is a great power. Ukraine is not.”
“Zelensky needs to want to end this war, and if he doesn’t, I think it will be very bad.
The Russians continue to advance. They have unlimited manpower.
We’ve given Ukraine enormous amounts of money. In return, all we’ve gotten is high diesel prices.”
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A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in the midterms, according to people involved. wapo.st/3WjVke5
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
I will say again Dr. El-Sayed was calm but direct and people complained about his tone. Meanwhile this is happening-
“Wait! WAIT! You better be careful… Quiet! QUIET! What’s wrong with you? Are you a sick person?”
The short-tempered thin-skinned dictator wannabe with cratering approval numbers repeatedly loses his shit at reporters. (H/T @atrupar)
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
"A town got hit or whatever."
Anhelina, a one-year-old, was killed in her stroller by a Russian Shahed yesterday in Kharkiv. Her mother, Inna Mariukhna, was also killed.
⚡️ "Some people in a town that got hit or whatever, but mostly soldiers die."
Trump on Russian shelling of civilians in Ukraine.
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Cahir O’Doherty retweeted
One of the reasons Trump is riding to Putin's rescue is that Vivaldi was going so well.
Andriy Biletskyi: In Operation Vivaldi we attacked a stronger enemy and lost seven times fewer troops than Russia.
Count only the dead and the gap is tenfold. Most Russian losses are killed, most of ours wounded. We can attack, and we can be effective — hromadske. 1/
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This is the kind of thing a psychotic Bond villain does whilst stroking a Siamese in an underwater lair. Who exactly is in charge of U.S. national defense?
Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcpBv
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