The AI Kids Take San Francisco

randycupertino 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

NY Mag loves these status mapping culture-obsession journalism "all the cool kids now are doing blah" pieces. Induces status brow-furrowing in their out-of-touch but trying to still be cool soccer mom readership who read it to catch up on the culture shorthand and still feel hip.

Today it's SF AI-kids, last week it was West Village Girls: https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood...

A few weeks ago it was Everyone is Cheating Their Way through College: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-ch...

NY Mag is simultaneously seduced by their subject matter while also being worried about aging, dealing with some class anxiety and lifestyle envy.

	▲	mitchbob 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When there are groups of people who, as the subtitle of this article says, are "reshaping our future in their image," I like it when good writers do some ethnography, some deep hanging out, and give me insights about what our future might look like. I might take a look at this one and see if there's substance that survives the magazine's house obsessions. A good writer can give us that, and New York has had some very good ones over the years.

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smcg 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They're so tacky.

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ChrisArchitect 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://archive.ph/euXDw