Gen Z lingo and search engines: A Millennial Odyssey
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Here it comes. Are you ready?
Translating Gen Z slang.
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Wow. Speaking to the New York Times podcast [2]Hard Fork , Scott mentioned when extolling the virtues of Bing's facelift: "I have a 14-year-old daughter who says things like 'rizz' and 'bussin,' and I have no idea what she's talking about.
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"You can like type this in, like, 'hey, I've got a teenager, she's saying these words I don't understand...' It's really really good at stuff like that."
Incredible! And I suppose that the all-new AI-infused Bing rattles off a treatise on the minutiae of Gen Z lingo?! $30 billion-valued OpenAI, where you have been all our lives????
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As a fusty old Millennial myself, I could definitely... not see this being of any use because I don't associate with people born after the '80s except my own children, who are probably Gen Omega, let's be honest, and have not yet been corrupted by AIs or the internet.
However, curiosity got the better of me. What does "rizz" mean anyway? Sighing at my out-of-touchiness, I opened a new tab and typed into Google's legacy search engine "what does rizz mean". No capitals, no punctuation, many fewer words than Scott's abridged example of his needless conversation with a chatbot...
Noun. rizz (uncountable) (slang) One's ability to seduce a potential (usually female) love interest. Synonyms: game, charm.
Right there, at the top of the page, less than five seconds to type and get my answer.
Oh no. Guys? Has Microsoft introduced a gimmicky inefficiency dressed up as the future? Surely not. More testing needed. Alta Vista is dead, what about Yahoo? First result, dictionary.com: "Rizz is a slang term for skill in charming or seducing a potential romantic partner, especially through verbal communication. It is most commonly applied in the context of men pursuing women, but not always."
[6]Take the blue pill: Keanu Reeves has had enough of AI baloney
[7]Wow, so they actually let AI fly an F-16 fighter jet
[8]Microsoft's AI Bing also factually wrong, fabricated text during launch demo
[9]Google's $100b bad day demo may be worth the price
OK, I had to do one more click than with Google, result wordier, no wonder nobody gives a toss about Yahoo. I wonder how old [10]Jeeves handles this... Worse, first result is [11]an article that I actually have to read , but I was able to infer the definition without clicking on the copious TikTok (shudder) videos despite the tedious writing, and it's still quicker than engaging in a lengthy conversation with a computer program.
So now I'm left scratching my head at how useful the next-gen Bing could be if this is the best example Microsoft's CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER could conjure when whipping up hype. What advantage would the OpenAI integration bring over traditionally googling something and finding out what you need to know within moments?
Perhaps it is the chatbot's ability to quickly distill information without having to open another webpage, and perhaps certain demographics may benefit from interfacing with a computer in a conversational manner. However, as we have already seen from demonstrations of Bing and Google's rival Bard chatbot (yes, for some reason they saw the need to compete on this), [12]both easily got things wrong , meaning that nu-Bing could end up making you look like an idiot if you didn't fact-check it.
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Speaking of idiots, I went even further out of my comfort zone in the process of researching (used in the loosest sense of the word possible) this article and actually asked a real-life Zoomer: "What are examples of 'Gen Z slang' that you legitimately use?"
Their response: "I don't use Gen Z slang, it just sounds like you're [offensive word for someone less advanced in mental, physical, or social development than is usual for one's age]."
So now we have another problem. Even Gen Z people find Gen Z slang insufferable, and if Gen Z slang makes you insufferable, what kind of imbecile is going to use rizz, bussin, fr, cap, ong, slay, bet, sus, vibing, glow-up, Stan, slaps, W, L, simp, tea in any environment outside the internet or their immediate peer group?
I'd ask Bing but don't actually care enough to have sought early access. If you want to see how nu-Bing will work and what it looks like, you can check the preview [14]here . ®
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Re: "quickly distill information"
That's why I always ask the lady at the information desk at the library
"rizz, bussin, fr, cap, ong, slay, bet, sus, vibing, glow-up, Stan, slaps, W, L, simp, tea"
slay & bet - ancient words
Stan - from Stan by Eminem - worth watching the video
tea - 2 lumps please
> tea - 2 lumps please
And sugar?
-A.
Equivalence conjecture
hype = money (and lots of it)
dictionary = (very) boring
Got it? It is not that difficult. You can ask your favourite AI to confirm.
Baseline
So the AI is prioritising a language typically used by a highly educated white male in their 40s over language used by other groups of people?
Isn't that racist in itself?
Try to chat using slang with ChatGPT, you'll get: "As an AI language model, I do not condone or promote criminal activity or the use of slang terminology.".
It is implying criminal activity just be mere use of slang.
Re: Baseline
Based on my usage of ChatGPT thats not true though. One of the "killer" use cases for it is what I call style translation.
You paste in a rough draft and then you ask ChatGPT to formalise or to "Gen Z"-ise the results are pretty promising.
ITs also a great "inspiration tool" if you are struggling to get started its good for a couple of summary paragraphs.
Of course idiots will use it verbatim, but thats really like using Excel as a calculator - a valid use case but not the tool sweet spot.
@Gordon 10 - Re: Baseline
You mean like a bullsh%t generator ?
Re: Baseline
I guess it depends on the prompt and their PC detector.
Bruv, lemme tell you, my experience with ChatGPT tells me that's straight cap. One of the mandem's go-to moves is what I call style translation.
You throw in a rough draft and let ChatGPT finesse it or give it that Gen Z drip, and the outcome is straight-up peng.
Aiight, if you're struggling to get the ball rolling, ChatGPT's a real inspiration tool that can help you pattern a couple of solid paragraphs, ya get me?.
But you know some wastemen might just jank it word-for-word, but that's dead fam. It's like using Excel as a basic ting - it works, but that's not where the tool's level's at.
Re: Baseline
For comparison:
My esteemed acquaintance, I should like to impart to you my personal encounter with ChatGPT, which regrettably leads me to question the validity of the proposition at hand. In my estimation, the tool's most meritorious facet is that of style translation.
To elaborate, one submits a rudimentary draft and endows ChatGPT with the liberty to refine it, or imbue it with a contemporary lilt, to yield a most delightful result.
In addition, for those besieged by compositional inertia, ChatGPT presents itself as a fount of inspiration, enabling the generation of a few eloquent paragraphs.
One cannot deny the fact that certain individuals may choose to mindlessly reproduce the text verbatim. However, this is most inadvisable, and tantamount to employing Excel purely as a calculator, when the tool is capable of much greater accomplishment.
Re: Baseline
What we need now is an algorithm for obfuscating written style, so the AI can't pick out the salient features and reproduce it later.
Re: Baseline
"Whatc*nt, wec*ck needc*ck nowc*nt isc*ck anc*ck algorithmc*ck forc*ck obfuscatingc*nt writtenc*ck stylec*nt, soc*ck thec*ck AIc*nt can'tc*ck pickc*ck outc*ck thec*nt salientc*ck featuresc*ck andc*ck reproducec*ck itc*nt laterc*ck."
That cloak works, AI refuses to write anything in this style (I mean if you got creative with the prompt it could probably be bypassed...)
Re: Baseline
Cromulent.AI ?
Now you've used those words...
They're passé.... Maybe Bing-AI can think up new ones.
Re: Now you've used those words...
That was a Saturday Night Live skit from decades ago, except back then it was street vs mainstream language, rather than gen-Z vs AI.
Re: Now you've used those words...
Do you speak Jive ?
Re: "quickly distill information"
Sorry but by what mechanism is generative AI supposed to distil information? Its advantages seem to be to pick keywords out of a verbose search and return verbose (and possibly inaccurate) results in a well-formed manner (due to it's 'knowledge' being pretty much, thanks to the LLM, how language should be used).
It might put "consultancy me" out of business, as it is even better at generating bullshit than I am. But "research me" would seem to be safe for a while yet.