[treetalker]

I tend to think it equally likely that the same corporations that cannot justify their LLM spending[1] need to shift the blame, and (unsurprisingly) the old, crotchety, and sociopathic who claw their way to positions of ownership, management, and other power find it both easy and convenient to target the younger generations, especially Gen Z.

(In short: the Principal Skinner "the children are wrong" meme.)

[1]: See the panoply of HN posts in recent months about how LLMs are great for eliminating workers' idiosyncratic drudgery, but workers cannot or do not reinvest that saved time/effort for non-software companies' benefit, hence non-software companies see no positive impact to their bottom lines.

[casey2]

In this case "finding a way to blame them" means a direct anonymous survey and some large percent saying "Yes I am actively sabotaging our companies the AI rollout"

[treetalker]

Claim:

> Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout

What is "sabotage"?

> The sabotage entails entering proprietary information into public AI tools, or using unapproved AI tools. Some employees report outright refusing to use AI tools. Others have even admitted to tampering with performance reviews or intentionally generating low-output work to make AI appear less effective.

Wow, so "sabotage" means using "AI tools" (LLMs?) in a way management doesn't want; or using AI tools other than the ones management mandates; or not using any AI tools at all!

How fearful are the members of Gen Z surveyed? The journalistic report of a commercial report of a commissioned study that is not available for review … doesn't say. But how many Gen Z members "admit" to "sabotaging" their employers' "AI" strategy in the defined way? Of those surveyed in the dubious study: a minority of

> 44%[.]

Were those surveyed asked directly if they were literally "sabotaging" AI rollouts? Again, the report of a commercial report of a commissioned and unavailable study doesn't say. But I doubt it.

And the journalism's coming from Fortune doesn't exactly help its credibility.