Gen Z Rated AI a Minus 44

The kids took one long look at your f*ucking AI and recoiled like it tried to friend their mother on Facebook. Polling that Merchant flags drops net favorability among the 18-to-34 crowd into a pit so deep it reads like a phone number, and the generation staring down the worst entry-level job market in forty years correctly clocked the gadget being sold as their replacement. They read the pitch, they ran the numbers, and they want the thing in the ground. Merchant rounds up the numbers at Blood in the Machine.