Report: Majority of U.S. teens have lost trust in Big Tech

American adolescents have lost their faith in big technology, according to a new report Common knowledge mediaA non -profit by offering reviews and ratings for media and technology, which Recently included AI productsThe

In Published in the study On Wednesday, the company surveyed more than a thousand teenagers on their good and well -being of their good and protection, moral decisions, protected their personal information and more care about their good and protection. In all cases, most adolescents have expressed low levels of confidence in these technology companies. About half of the teenagers said they had little or no belief that companies would make an accountable decision on how they use AI.

Big Take in Big Tech has been made in the United States for years from 20 to several years Revelation Government Mass data collection And the data scandal associated with the consulting firm Cambridge 2021 on Facebook Whistle Blower Frances Hagen Leaked Hint Meta was aware of the society and its loss Multiply Congressional Hearing Where lawmakers have grilled applications, disbelief problems and CEO of technology bigger than harmful algorithms.

This year, tech CEOs are aligned to promise loyalty to the Trump administration in size $ 1 million grants To the President’s inaugural fund, hoping to buy grace and hope to have their business verification and control – whatever the cost for their users. (Even for those who combine with Trump, the technology leaders’ activities are seen as significant, how they are given a flip-flop after criticizing Trump in his previous term.)

Although adolescents may or may not be able to track them closely as their adult parts, this technical news is influenced by this overall change in the feeling.

Common knowledge states that surveying does not believe in our adolescents to take care of their mental health and well -being in our adolescents, and the% 2% think companies will protect their protection if it does harm to profit.

More than half of the surveyed US adolescents (5%) do not even think that large technology companies make moral and responsible design decisions (think: The increasing use of dark patterns in the user interface design is referred to for the purpose of confusion and deception.

More than 52% do not think that big technology will protect their personal information and 51% of the users do not think that the organizations are fair and included when considering the needs of different user.

Not surprisingly, disbelief in technology is affecting adolescents’ views around AI, because 47% of those surveyed do not believe that these companies will make responsible decisions on their use of AI.

The new study creates based on common sense Pre -research The generator among adolescents is about accepting AI and the Genny also focuses on how the larger media is affecting landscapes.

For example, it has been shown that 41% of the surveyed adolescents have been distracted by fake images online, 35% were generally distracted by fake online materials and whether more than a quarter (28%) they were talking to bot or any human It was surprised. A third of the teenagers also said that Genny would make it more difficult to believe in online information. If adolescents are scattered by fake or misleading materials before that, this figure increases 40%.

Overall, the report indicates the lack of uncertainty compared to online content, though it is rarely a new problem for the web.

Nevertheless, it seems that AI is not helping the AI ​​chatboat’s authoritative answer. About 39% of the adolescents who surveyed it for school assistance noticed the problem with AI output. Also, most US adolescents (% 5%) have said that privacy protection and transparency are needed to operate AI,% 5% said AI companies should discourage people from sharing personal information on their platform, and 73% of teenagers said AI figure. And other content should be labeled and watermark.

When weighing in AI’s business models, 61% of adolescents felt that content manufacturers should be compensated if their data was used by AI systems.

As a result of the lack of confidence in adolescents and the rapid development of AI, 35% of adolescents think that geni will make it more difficult to rely on online information -though this number may change on time.