r/Millennials • u/Ok_Dare6608 • Aug 10 '26

Meme Back in my day

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u/centerfoldangel Millennial Aug 10 '26

Someone in the comments said, "before AI we had BS".

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u/iggy14750 Aug 10 '26

AI is arguably the new version of BS, but now it doesn't make you come up with anything.

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u/FamilyFriendly101 Millennial Aug 10 '26

Singlehandedly killing mankind's creativity.

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u/gimlet_prize Aug 10 '26

The best innovations always start out with some BS.

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u/throwawayformobile78 Aug 10 '26

You’re right to push back in that, I was totally out of line. What I should have done was exactly what you asked. Let me know if you’d like to continue this conversation later.

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u/BetaDays24 Aug 12 '26

Accepted. We can continue whenever you’re ready.

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u/masterhogbographer Aug 10 '26

And how often has that learned ability to BS gotten you by in real life??

No wonder these new kids can’t talk on the phone or just stare at you from behind the counter when you ask where aisle 22 is

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u/Bitter-Ad5890 Aug 10 '26

No thought behind the eyes anymore. The thinking has been farmed out to machines

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u/juvy5000 Aug 10 '26

let me google that so see if it’s true…

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u/SgtExo Aug 10 '26

No wonder these new kids can’t talk on the phone or just stare at you from behind the counter when you ask where aisle 22 is

They did this even before they had access to AI

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u/pp21 Aug 10 '26

yeah the dead empty stare is a product of being raised on smart phones/social media, not AI in particular.

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u/MillennialPolytropos Aug 10 '26

It's sad that today's kids don't get to experience the glorious flow state of completely winging it right before the paper is due in.

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u/Iambecomelegend Aug 10 '26

And Sparknotes.

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u/skeletontape '86 Millennial Aug 10 '26

"I asked ChatGPT to summarize the book for me!"

My dude, there is a free website for that and it was authored by humans with eyes and brains who actually read the book.

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u/10_17my20 Older Millennial Aug 10 '26

Right? Like, I'll bang out a 5-page paper in front of you right now. Give me a topic, any topic!

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u/ceruleanmoon7 Millennial - 1986 Aug 10 '26

And cliffs notes

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u/imsaneinthebrain Aug 10 '26

I thought the cliff notes book was the actual book I was supposed to be reading?!?

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u/Difficult_Stomach_46 Gen Z Aug 10 '26

is that french for litcharts? lol

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u/Confident_Insect_616 Aug 11 '26

My BS wasn't TOTAL BS. I didn't usually read the material, but I would read a few summaries. Cliff notes were a frequently-visited resource.

Back in those days, using Wikipedia for a launching point on a project felt like cheating. Usually great info, and all the source material linked on the same page.