ChatGPT Asked If Boomers Are Right About Millennials—It Doesn't Hold Back

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Two millennial moms who felt tired of the negative tropes about their generation decided to take matters into their own hands by asking ChatGPT what it thinks—and the responses did not disappoint.
Like many other millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996), entrepreneurs Miranda Hann and Lexi Silva came of age during a time of economic and political uncertainty, and it's taking its toll.
Indeed, Hann, 33, of Florida, believes that systematic failures have left her generation struggling to afford what were once considered necessities. She told Newsweek that millennials were "promised the world and left wanting."
Over time, the two moms have become increasingly exhausted by older generations hating on millennials. They've put up with the negative stereotypes about millennials supposedly being lazy, entitled, and bad with money, but now the duo has finally had enough.
They decided to ask ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, whether it thinks millennials are as lazy as baby boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) think.
The instruction sent to OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, asking it to analyze baby boomers and millennials.
The instruction sent to OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, asking it to analyze baby boomers and millennials.
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"We decided to ask ChatGPT about millennials and if we were set up for failure because we know so many people who are equally frustrated and sick of the system," Hann said.
She continued: "ChatGPT analyzed and confirmed that millennials have little to no support, are making less money but spending more to afford the same standard of living boomers afforded with half the salary and confirmed that boomers are completely out of touch with reality."
There were several explanations provided by ChatGPT, including that boomers were "born into the golden cheat code" because a single income used to buy a house and the job market was more stable back then, that boomers "broke the ladder behind them" by deregulating the housing market and burdening people with student debt, and that they got "financially fat and morally fragile."
Newsweek has contacted OpenAI via email for comment.
Hann and Silva, also 33, couldn't have agreed more with what the AI chatbot had to say.
In their initial instruction, they asked ChatGPT for unvarnished honesty because they feel "tired of their gaslighting."
Well, ChatGPT really didn't hold back.
The responses were provided in a sassy and human-like tone, which Silva explains is because they have spent over a year training ChatGPT to use their "tone and brand voice."
Silva told Newsweek: "We weren't shocked at Chat's sass because we trained her that way. Our favorite line she came up with was, 'you built the bridge then made us pay the toll, Frank.'"
They shared the response in a video on social media (@_simplifiedsocial) and the clip went viral with over 3.7 million views and more than 181,000 likes at the time of writing.
There were of course plenty of boomers who weren't too happy with their portrayal, but Silva said that many millennials felt validated by the video. They have connected with countless people who feel that the system is dooming them to failure, so Hann and Silva wanted to speak out.
"The American dream of a white picket fence, car, affordable living, and two kids isn't realistic or attainable anymore," Silva said. "Families used to survive on one salary and live comfortable middle-class lives. But now, parents work full-time or have multiple jobs, kids go to daycares (which cost a kidney), mortgages are an entire paycheck. We're all just trying to survive—there's no thriving anymore."
Since the video went viral on Instagram, it has amassed over 3,200 comments already.
One comment reads: "ChatGPT will always be that girl."
Another Instagram user wrote: "Dang, ChatGPT left no crumbs *mic drop*."
While another person added: "Well said. Sidenote: ChatGPT definitely identifies as a millennial."
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