The AI Kids Take San Francisco
nymag.comNY Mag loves these status mapping culture-obsession journalism "all the cool kids now are doing blah" pieces. Induces status brow-furrowing in their out-of-touch but trying to still be cool soccer mom readership who read it to catch up on the culture shorthand and still feel hip.
Today it's SF AI-kids, last week it was West Village Girls: https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood...
A few weeks ago it was Everyone is Cheating Their Way through College: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-ch...
NY Mag is simultaneously seduced by their subject matter while also being worried about aging, dealing with some class anxiety and lifestyle envy.
When there are groups of people who, as the subtitle of this article says, are "reshaping our future in their image," I like it when good writers do some ethnography, some deep hanging out, and give me insights about what our future might look like. I might take a look at this one and see if there's substance that survives the magazine's house obsessions. A good writer can give us that, and New York has had some very good ones over the years.
They're so tacky.