Big Smile, No Teeth: Been there, done that, gimme the tech

Gen-Zers are so into retro things like vinyl records that Sony Music began releasing music on them again. This is a Japanese pressing of The Beatles' final studio album, 'Let It Be' on sale in a Tokyo music shop. — Filepic/AFP

A while back I was talking with some production assistants about using ChatGPT to aid writing scripts and the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate images and videos.

I expected to be the old man speaking to the kids who had a much greater grasp of this tech – ie, young people things – but a lot of them didn’t seem to have used these AI tools. In fact, they seemed kind of unimpressed. Derisive even. When I pushed on the topic, a few of them went back to reading their books. Like, real books, with pages made out of paper. Not even on a screen. I walked away thinking, like, weirdos.