My teen has already been through the hype cycle. Was super into chatbots…until they were not. My preteen has never been even tempted, thought it was stupid from the get-go. From the mouth of babes…!
But then again they did also fall into using stuff like tiktok and oversharing on it with their names and faces and installing the app on their phone. Not just tiktok but meta stuff like Instagram or Twitter.
I think best balance was during the phase where usernames were used on message boards and people were wary of sharing more beyond that on the Internet, and mantras like be careful what you share on the Internet was more common.
Now days, people are sharing lot of information that marketers and companies had to work really hard to try to get. Now companies get names, voices, and faces given to them without effort.
It’s nice to see the pushback against AI over privacy concerns but I hope it eventually leads to also beginning to see that general usage of social media that has become more common place to freely share everything has the same issues.
This is verging onto old internet nostalgia, and while I agree with the sentiment and love the old internet… it was a trash fire.
And not safe.
Someone vividly this out to me recently, and then I looked though archives of old threads. I was a moron on the internet in the 2000s, more than I realized.
I guess what I’m saying is: yeah, the Big Tech grip seems bad. It is bad. But today’s kids will probably deal with it better than we expect, and whatever kids get into 20 years from now will be unspeakable, I’m sure.
I’m honestly more worried about boomers, who don’t seem to be adapting to this stuff unless they were already IT folks.
One of the reasons stated for disliking AI has been data harvesting and privacy infringement.
Which lot of people are not realizing they are providing on their own and doing a bulk of the invasive AI’s job for them from the get go.
I guess look at how you use lemmy. Would you feel comfortable if your username was your name and profile pic your face? Did past you do that on your interactions with the web so people can type in your name and find archives of your contributions as opposed to it being dumb things from a random username? Not that there weren’t people who did, but the sentiment of be careful what you share and a more cautious view did appear to be more common compared to now.
So its not so much social media is bad, but the way people choose to use it now days that people don’t look deeper into. Kind of like how some people will upload videos of crimes they are doing on social media because of how comfortable they’ve gotten to treating it like a personal diary.
When I bring up the old internet it’s about general approach of what information is provided and given freely by the user as opposed to technical assessment of how secure the old internet was.
My teen has already been through the hype cycle. Was super into chatbots…until they were not. My preteen has never been even tempted, thought it was stupid from the get-go. From the mouth of babes…!
We don’t give kids enough credit.
I remember news bringing up similar stuff when I was young, or like existential worries over TikTok more recently.
But… kids are sharp. They’re adaptable. They often sniff out stupid trends faster than adults do, especially artifical ones like AI hype.
But then again they did also fall into using stuff like tiktok and oversharing on it with their names and faces and installing the app on their phone. Not just tiktok but meta stuff like Instagram or Twitter.
I think best balance was during the phase where usernames were used on message boards and people were wary of sharing more beyond that on the Internet, and mantras like be careful what you share on the Internet was more common.
Now days, people are sharing lot of information that marketers and companies had to work really hard to try to get. Now companies get names, voices, and faces given to them without effort.
It’s nice to see the pushback against AI over privacy concerns but I hope it eventually leads to also beginning to see that general usage of social media that has become more common place to freely share everything has the same issues.
This is verging onto old internet nostalgia, and while I agree with the sentiment and love the old internet… it was a trash fire.
And not safe.
Someone vividly this out to me recently, and then I looked though archives of old threads. I was a moron on the internet in the 2000s, more than I realized.
I guess what I’m saying is: yeah, the Big Tech grip seems bad. It is bad. But today’s kids will probably deal with it better than we expect, and whatever kids get into 20 years from now will be unspeakable, I’m sure.
I’m honestly more worried about boomers, who don’t seem to be adapting to this stuff unless they were already IT folks.
One of the reasons stated for disliking AI has been data harvesting and privacy infringement.
Which lot of people are not realizing they are providing on their own and doing a bulk of the invasive AI’s job for them from the get go.
I guess look at how you use lemmy. Would you feel comfortable if your username was your name and profile pic your face? Did past you do that on your interactions with the web so people can type in your name and find archives of your contributions as opposed to it being dumb things from a random username? Not that there weren’t people who did, but the sentiment of be careful what you share and a more cautious view did appear to be more common compared to now.
So its not so much social media is bad, but the way people choose to use it now days that people don’t look deeper into. Kind of like how some people will upload videos of crimes they are doing on social media because of how comfortable they’ve gotten to treating it like a personal diary.
When I bring up the old internet it’s about general approach of what information is provided and given freely by the user as opposed to technical assessment of how secure the old internet was.