The New Generational Flex: Surviving College Without AI
This meme highlights a shifting cultural perspective regarding academic struggle. It draws a humorous comparison between the classic parental trope of walking long distances to school and the modern experience of completing a four-year college degree without the assistance of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. The text suggests that finishing an education through traditional research and writing methods is becoming a new point of pride for older students and recent graduates, framing the absence of AI as a challenging rite of passage similar to the hardships often recounted by previous generations.
Fuck ChatGPT. NO internet until couple years after I graduated college. No indian youtube math videos. No Mr. Carson's lab nothing. Library and my encyclopedias that were printed before we went to the moon.
I still hoped AI was there back then so that It could help me with math problems. Cuz I suck at math
I’m so glad that I didn’t have LLM… I could not have resisted the temptation and would have got myself expelled or something
You think everyone always used chatgpt and are lying about it?
Had a chat about a possible new job after some guy reached out over linkedin. He wanted something in writing and just said “no worries if you want AI to write that”. Wtf man, i can use my brain. I have dedicated time and effort to be able to write decently. I’m worried about what
No it's really way different. One is about physical stress, making you weaker than people in the past that were walking more, the other one is making you dumber since someone/something else is thinking for you. Your brain is literally not "working out" enough, it's not learning h
No its not, chatgpt is like multiplying in your head vs needing a calculator, except with the added brain rot for regular thinking.
I see this as a great opportunit for job security. We learnt shit the hard way and also know how to use ai. My job has people’s lives on the line so now its really hard a youngling can replace me, let alone an AI.
Nobody today and going forward will ever be able to write an essay from scratch.
Except this one is true