Hank Green ist für eine, wenn nicht mehrere Generationen, sowas wie die Sendung mit der Maus auf YouTube und zwischenzeitlich auch auf TikTok. Mit Vlogbrothers, der Gründung der VidCon und diversen Erklärkanälen rund um Complexly ist er eine Säule der Creator-Kultur und mit „Ein wirklich erstaunliches Ding„* außerdem Bestsellerautor. Es gibt kaum jemanden, der Hank Green nicht mag — mich eingeschlossen.
Aber eben jener Hank Green hat gerade einen massiven Shitstorm wegen vier Wörtern: „I appreciate the pushback.“ Diesen Satz schrieben die Nutzer einem Chatbot zu und vermuteten massiven KI-Einsatz. Was Hank Green auch einräumte, wenn auch nicht an dieser Stelle und für diesen Zweck im Skript. Seitdem gibt es massiven Pushback — vor allem von jüngeren Nutzern gegen einen ihrer Lieblings-Creator.
Warum Gen-Z und Millennials unterschiedlich auf KI blicken
Mitten in dieser Auseinandersetzung fand ich folgenden Austausch im Podcast von „Colin and Samir“ interessant, die sich als Millennials mit ihren jüngeren Gen-Z-Kollegen austauschen. Dabei wird deutlich, mit welch unterschiedlichem Hintergrund Gen-Z und Millennials auf den Einsatz von KI und LLMs blicken:
Eine Gen-Z-Perspektive auf KI:
„He’s this guy who is often in the position of authority that people look to for their opinions. A lot of people, if we’re being honest, look to Hank to assign them opinion on many topics. And now they’re being told that the opinion that was being assigned to them on so many topics came from AI. And then there’s how Gen Z views AI. Think, Gen Z right now, if you’re 22, you just went to college, you spent all this money, and now you’re probably unemployed. You probably are unemployed or you can’t move out of your parents‘ house and you’re angry, and then you go online and they’re like, AI has this big market, a stock market, all time high, AI is bringing in jobs, or is AI going to take your job?“
Eine Millennial-Perspektive auf KI:
„So Colin and I, being 37, when we came out of college, what was happening was our peers were creating apps in Silicon Valley and adopting technology in a way that was changing their lives, and they were rock stars to us. This may be hard for you to believe. Mark Zuckerberg was a rock star to us. And their apps were changing our lives. We were meeting people at school. We were dating. We were people, the guys who made Tinder, the guys who made Instagram, the guys, there was a movement, Evan Spiegel, who made Snapchat, of young people utilizing technology to change the world. And that was extraordinarily exciting when we were 21. I still have that. The thing of our generation is being an early adopter of technology can unlock and change your world and change the world. So, my relationship with technology is when a new technology comes my way, I want to be an early adopter of it. And I want to learn as much of it as possible, because I witnessed that growing up.“
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