My grandpa is college educated, reads a lot, takes online classes through a local college even in his eighties; yet somehow falls for even the most obvious AI videos advertising for “new products”.
Like the ones on YouTube with the robot dog that looks like a real dog, the hearing aids that can translate language in real time, the blood sugar monitor that has no needle (and is literally just a pulse ox), the supplement ones with famous actors whose mouths don’t even match up with their words because it’s AI slop, etc. He is obsessed with AI and thinks it’s amazing and we should be using it for everything(I’m a bit more cautious because of the environmental impacts, the risk of it replacing people’s jobs, and how if it’s unregulated it can become dangerous to society).
I don’t want it to be something titled, “AI and How it’s Destroying the World” because then he won’t want to read it. If its just a book that looks like it’s about AI he will be intrigued enough to read it, and hopefully stick with it long enough to learn something.
I want something a bit critical of AI so that maybe he can stop falling for AI scam videos (and other scams) and understand that not everything he sees on the internet is real/true. Something about manipulative marketing targeting elderly could work as well.
Does anyone have suggestions? Thank you in advance!
by sweetdreamsdankmemez
3 Comments
You won’t find a book detailing how to spot AI slop specifically. No one will print something that will be instantly out of date. Your grandpa needs to be leveraging media literacy skills in general when he sees product features and other ads on the internet, which it sounds like he’s not doing. I can’t say he needs training in spotting scams when your description makes it sound like he’s not applying critical thinking to these situations (and therefore wouldn’t even use the “spot AI” tricks if he knew them).
For a book critical about putting AI in everything, try *Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI* by Madhumita Murgia.
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Let him get scammed and he’ll stop real quick.