Fuck AI

The nickname is new, the behaviour isn't.

At the risk of coming off judgemental of family, my mother in law is exactly like this; especially when it comes to anything related to the computer.

My partner is an only child and every time mother dearest has any kind of issue, real or imagined, with her computer, she's hitting the speed dial for my partner's phone. At this point she's kind of in a mindset of "I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas". If she can't get an immediate response she actually starts to think about the problem logically, and tries to fix it herself.

Luckily, she hasn't been inundated with AI chat bots yet.

I'm certain that if she could manage to get to chat gpt, she would be asking it what to do about everything under the sun... Lucky for her, I work in IT support and manage what updates she gets, or more accurately, doesn't get.

She's a fairly mild example since she actually tries when she can't get an instant response from someone on what to do. There's plenty of people that do not.

I'm almost entirely convinced that some of the willful ignorance is simply people aggressively keeping to their job descriptions (at least when it comes to what I normally have to deal with)... They don't try to fix their computer because that's not their job. Even if they know how, they won't. That's not in their job description. It gives them an excuse to work less and get paid for it.

Regardless of the reason, people often know nothing about things and don't care to be informed on the subject, they just want the easy answer as to what they need to do next. Unfortunately for them, life is rarely that "black and white".