Brutkey

Gabriele Svelto
@gabrielesvelto@mas.to

Yesterday I was buying some stuff from a stall in a market and my children (daughter & son) were looking at some bookmarks with cat pictures they had on sale. The conversation between them went roughly like this:

S: Can we buy one of these?
D: No look, they're done with AI
S: Oh, you're right
D: It was obvious
S: So cringe

At this point I also looked at the bookmarks and indeed, it was generative AI slop, but it took me a minute to figure it out. They spotted it immediately.

Gabriele Svelto
@gabrielesvelto@mas.to

So dear tech bros, forget the whole "GEnERAtiVe aI iS So GoOd yoU caN'T telL it'S Ai". Gen alpha can tell it's slop at a glance.

Furthermore gen alpha thinks you're cringe. Which means you're doomed. Give up already, nobody survives being labelled as "cringe" by a 10yo.

And for the record, my children speak Italian but they did indeed use "cringe" because it's become a universal label for shaming whatever your parents do and you most certainly won't.