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Young Adults Use AI In Everyday Conversation
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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.
Several 20-somethings told WSJ they use chatbots to draft responses on dating apps, come up with icebreakers at parties, craft rebuttals during arguments, or even reply to someone standing right next to them (yes, they pull up ChatGPT while literally chatting).
Other young people definitely aren’t into it, saying they can tell when someone’s texts suddenly change. The grammar and syntax may be better, but the personality is gone.
Some are using AI to change their tone. One person told WSJ they drafted an angry email to someone at school, then had ChatGPT lower the temperature.
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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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.