Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool

有些孩子永远不会觉得人工智能很酷

Forget cheating on homework and chatbot friends. Some kids are getting in on a new AI trend: thinking it sucks. 别再只盯着作业作弊和聊天机器人朋友了。一些孩子正在加入一股新的人工智能潮流：认为它烂透了。

In the four years since chatbots went mainstream, and their marketing campaigns went into overdrive, young people have grown increasingly skeptical of the hype around LLMs. Yes, many of them still use the tech for school assignments and companionship, but according to market research firm YPulse, 37 percent of teens aged 13 to 17 cringe when they see AI content like music and videos, and more than half worry about misinformation and deepfakes. 在聊天机器人走向主流、营销活动全面铺开的四年里，年轻人对大语言模型（LLM）的炒作越来越持怀疑态度。诚然，他们中许多人仍在使用这项技术来完成学校作业或寻求陪伴，但根据市场研究公司 YPulse 的数据，37% 的 13 至 17 岁青少年在看到人工智能生成的音乐和视频等内容时会感到尴尬，超过半数的人担心虚假信息和深度伪造（deepfakes）问题。

The polling on youthful AI attitudes shows a great deal of contradiction. Adoption rates are high, with a majority of America’s teens reporting they use chatbots, but enthusiasm is mixed. A recent Pew Research report found that while many teens think AI will be good for them personally, over a fourth of their cohort believe AI will have a negative impact on society in the next 20 years, citing job loss, the decline of critical thinking skills, and environmental impacts as concerns. 针对青少年人工智能态度的民意调查显示出极大的矛盾性。虽然普及率很高，大多数美国青少年表示他们使用聊天机器人，但他们的热情参差不齐。皮尤研究中心最近的一份报告发现，尽管许多青少年认为人工智能对自己个人有益，但超过四分之一的受访者认为，人工智能在未来 20 年内将对社会产生负面影响，他们列举了失业、批判性思维能力下降以及环境影响等担忧。

Young people typically adopt new consumer technology eagerly, but Melanie Green, a communications professor at the University at Buffalo, says AI is different. This time, the moral panic isn’t coming from older generations—in fact, kids are turned off by the way AI is being pushed on them by adults and tech corporations. They’re also, Green says, “acutely aware that whatever disruption happens, their generation is going to be bearing the brunt of it.” 年轻人通常会热切地拥抱新的消费技术，但布法罗大学传播学教授梅兰妮·格林（Melanie Green）表示，人工智能的情况有所不同。这一次，道德恐慌并非来自老一辈——事实上，孩子们对成年人和科技公司向他们强推人工智能的方式感到反感。格林还指出，他们“敏锐地意识到，无论发生什么样的颠覆，他们这一代人都将首当其冲地承受后果。”

Ergo, the eye-rolls. On Bluesky, parents bond over their kids’ distrust of AI, with many claiming that their children come home saying “that’s AI” to mean “that’s BS.” On Reddit, educators share that students—even those who use AI—worry about its consequences and can’t stand the art it produces. WIRED spoke to young people, their parents, and their teachers to find out why some kids don’t want to be on the AI bandwagon. 因此，才有了那些翻白眼的行为。在 Bluesky 上，家长们因孩子对人工智能的不信任而产生共鸣，许多人称他们的孩子回家后会说“那是 AI”，意思就是“那是胡扯”。在 Reddit 上，教育工作者分享说，学生们——即使是那些使用人工智能的学生——也担心其后果，并且无法忍受它所创作的艺术作品。《连线》（WIRED）采访了年轻人、他们的父母和老师，以探究为什么有些孩子不想赶这趟人工智能的潮流。