Gen Z’s Conversation Cheat

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Gen Z is starting to use AI in everyday conversation with family, friends, and potential partners.

The Big Talk: Gen Z, fairly or not, has a reputation for lacking the people skills of previous generations due to a loneliness epidemic, remote work, and too much time spent in digital spaces. Just look up the Gen Z stare or “anxiety bags.” While AI may help people work through their thoughts, offloading real conversations to chatbots could reshape relationships — and language itself.

Behind The Conversations: Having AI draft emails to colleagues is already common practice, but having it draft texts to your girlfriend or boyfriend is definitely new territory.

Closing Thoughts: Mental health professionals are wary of people using chatbots for these kinds of human conversations. Receiving clearly AI-generated messages could make people feel like the sender doesn’t care about them, while relying on chatbots could prevent people from truly connecting. Experts are also concerned that over-reliance on AI could erode people’s confidence in their own communication skills, leaving them dependent on AI to say what they mean — or avoiding situations where they can’t rely on it to speak for them.

Maybe some things shouldn’t be optimized.

The Future: One day, people’s personalized AI pendants may be talking to each other while their humans are face to face. Dystopian AF.

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FX is releasing a fresh pilot episode of its critically acclaimed comedy Adults — a series that debuted last year and has its second season premiering later this month.

The Big Picture: FX decided to release a new pilot after internal data showed that many potential viewers were dropping off during the show’s very first scene. Granted, it’s a purposely controversial comedic one, which the network and creators recognized. The move underscores just how difficult it is to get audiences to commit to a show in today’s on-demand TV ecosystem.

Behind The Scenes: Despite being popular with viewers under 35, FX is hoping a new pilot can win over a broader audience for Adults — a half-hour comedy about young adults living together in NYC.

Final Cut: In the olden days of FX (think the 2000s and early 2010s), the network could seemingly turn any comedy into a hit. Landgraf credits that consistency to the habits of the cable era, with NYT noting that “a new series would have a built-in audience of roughly a million viewers who had just finished watching a movie on FX.” Then, FX could rerun the episode throughout the week to reach another million viewers each day. Now, Landgraf says streaming doesn’t provide any “inherent way of focusing a bazooka of attention on it.”

Still, Landgraf believes the show is worthy of the extra investment because he considers Kronengold and Shaw “generational talent.” The FX chief has a pretty great track record of trusting his gut.

Coming Soon: If the experiment pays off, it’s possible other networks and streamers will give it a try — and it may even become a new negotiating tool to help under-seen shows get renewed for another season.

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39.4% of you voted No in Friday’s poll: If a book disclosed that AI played a role in its creation, would you be open to reading it?

“I’m a writer. ALL of my books have been used by AI developers to train their models (whether they admit it or not). I worked hard for 40 years writing these books, and these AI firms stole my work. I will never, ever read a book written by AI.”

“This is a slippery slope. As a teacher, I think allowing young writers the crutch of AI ruins their perseverance and absolutely shatters their ability to conduct research. Writers should be able to craft their own stories. Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler would not be the same had HAL interfered.”

“The hypocrisy is that to ‘detect’ AI, you have to use an AI program. Essentially using AI against itself, and using AI on a work that may not have used AI initially but now will carry AI ‘markers.’ Most problematic is that zero AI detection programs in use right now are accurate. It’s creating a witch hunt and a huge divide among writers, readers, and publishers. Not to mention publishers like Penguin are using AI to create their own catalogs while demonizing it in others, alongside readers who use AI to search for new reads and have AI write reviews for them. I’m old-school and think creative work is a human necessity, but forming mobs using virtual torches and pitchforks is not the answer.”

“I’ve signed up in the past for classes that have used AI for proofreading, etc., so to be honest, how much did AI write this book? Completely, or what? And why is everyone so in an uproar? AI is used in movies, commercials, cars, and everywhere someone can think of. Believe me when I say I am the last person to say I am less than thrilled about it. But if someone used AI to help write a book, good for them. There are way worse things to use AI for, and people have.”

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