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"In August 2024, Soul Machines, a company that creates autonomous AI avatars, released a survey finding Gen Z young adults are starting to prefer support from AI assistants over traditional self-help resources..."

Re: "starting to prefer." I'd argue that the survey results didn't quite affirm this claim. The results are published by SoulMachine as a PR piece to promote their product as if that is what Gen Z "would" choose if they "preferred" to use an AI assistant, which is highly speculative. We don't know the nature of the questions asked in this survey, which could be leading.

In a nutshell, this survey is PR fluff, and it doesn't reflect actual use cases - I'd place no value in it as a trend or a point of reality. I can't even get my Gen Z kid to TRY NotebookLM!

The sub-heading states, "Young adults prefer AIs to people." I'd be very careful with this.

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