American teenagers have lost faith in the big tech, according to a new report from Common sense mediaa nonprofit that offers reviews and ratings for media and technology, which Recently included AI products.
In The study was released Wednesday, the organization reviews more than 1,000 young people if major technology companies such as Google, Apple, Meta, Tiktok, and Microsoft care about their well -being and safety, make ethical decisions, protect their private data , and more. In all cases, most young people have reported low levels of trust in these tech companies. About half of the young people say they have little or no confidence that companies will make responsible decisions about how they use AI.
Big Tech unbelievable builds in the US many years from 2013 Statement of the government mass data collection and the data scandal involving the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica on 2021 Facebook Whistleblower Frances haugen's Leaks implies Meta finds out its injuries to society and the Much Congress Hearings Where lawmakers roast the big CEO tech on the safety app, antitrust issues, and harmful algorithms.
This year the tech CEOs are lined up to pledge loyalty to the Trump administration in the form of $ 1 million donations In the President's inaugural fund, it is hoping to buy favors and avoid investigating and regulating their businesses – even the cost to their users. (Even for those who aligned with Trump, the actions of tech leaders are seen as undesirable, given how they flip-flopped after Trump criticized his previous term.)
While teenagers may or may not be able to monitor the tech titles that this news is close to their adult counterparts, the general emotional shift also affects them.
The common sense states that 64% of those who surveyed us young people do not trust large tech companies to take care of their mental health and well-being and 62% do not think companies will protect their safety If the income hurts.
Over half of those -Survey US teenagers (53%) also don't think that major tech companies make ethical and responsible design decisions (think: the growing use of dark Pattern in user interface design means deceived, confused, and deceptive.
An additional 52% does not think that Big Tech will keep their personal information safe and 51% do not think that companies are fair and included when considering the needs of different users.
Not surprisingly, tech uncertainty influences the opinions of young people around AI, as 47% of those who have been reviewed do not believe that these companies will make responsible decisions in their AI use.
The new study constitutes the usual Sense's Before research About the adoption of Generative AI to teenagers and also focused on how Genai affects the larger media views.
For example, it was found that 41% of that -who -survey teenagers were reported misguided by fake images online, 35% misleading fake content online in general, and more than one -quarter (28%) were amazed If they talk to a bot or someone. A third of young people also said that Genai would do it even more difficult to trust in the accuracy of online information. That figure rises to 40% if young people have previously doubled fake or misleading content.
Generally, the report points to a lack of uncertainty in online content, though this is not a new problem for the web.
However, AI seems to be not helping the matter despite AI chatbot's authorities. Some 39% of those -who -you adolescents have noticed AI output problems when they are used for school assistance. Further, a majority of -that -Survey US youths (74%) said privacy and transparency care were required to manage AI, 74% said AI companies should be discouraged by Inside people from sharing personal information on their platform, and 73% of young people said AI images and other content should be labeled and watermarked.
When weighing the AI business models, 61% of young people felt that content creators should be paid when their data was used by AI systems.
As a result of the lack of confidence of young people and the rapid speed of AI development, 35% of youth thinks Genai will make it more difficult to trust online information – even if that number may change to Time.
