Mental Health Gen z +AI
Clue: You see people with perfect lives, perfect bodies, perfect everything on the Internet, and suddenly you feel your life is mediocre. This is called:
Answer: What is social comparison?
Clue: No joke you opened TikTok for five minutes, and it's 2 AM. You don't even remember what you've watched. This is called:
Answer: What is Brain Rot
Clue: This decade saw the point where AI became a science.
Answer: What is 1950s
Clue: Contemporary AI is so good at cloning voices that it becomes impossible to distinguish them from real ones. They are called:
Answer: What are deepfakes?
Clue: Gen Z is considered the first generation that grew up in the age of this.
Answer: What is the internet?
Clue: You always receive depressing or stressing posts from the algorithm as if the algorithm somehow knows your feelings and keeps giving you more of it. This is caused by:
Answer: What is algorithmic reinforcement?
Clue: You hear "tung tung tung sahur" or some random TikTok audio ONCE, and suddenly it's stuck in your head throughout the whole day for no particular reason. This is:
Answer: What is getting mentally stuck on a sound (mere exposure effect)?
Clue: This test was created by Alan Turing to evaluate if machines could behave like people.
Answer: What is the Turing Test?
Clue: This AI system beat the top human players in the game of Go.
Answer: What is AlphaGo?
Clue: Even though Gen Z spends most of its time online, research shows increasing trends in this emotion.
Answer: What is loneliness?
Clue: According to the American Psychological Association, excessive social media usage among teens correlates with this mental illness.
Answer: What is depression?
Clue: Why do TikTok videos combine gameplay from Subway Surfers, Minecraft parkour, AND clips from podcasts? To:
️ Answer: What is to keep your attention (overstimulation)?
Clue: This period saw humanity's disillusionment towards AI due to the slow pace of its development.
️ Answer: What is the AI Winter?
Clue: According to Pew Research Center, a considerable number of Gen Z members use AI for this.
Answer: What is schoolwork?
Clue: This term describes the natural skills of Gen Z with technology.
Answer: What is digitally native?
Clue: You feel tired, demotivated, and exhausted after scrolling for hours, even though you "didn't do anything". This is:
Answer: What is digital fatigue?
Clue: You start saying phrases such as "bro is cooked," "it's giving," or "nah that's wild" without even noticing it. It proves that brain rot affects your:
Answer: What is your language or thinking?
Clue: This company has created ChatGPT, which is widely used by Gen Z members.
Answer: What is OpenAI?
Clue: If AI algorithms are trained on data that is biased or promotes harmful stereotypes, then the output may reproduce the same stereotypes. This process is known as:
Answer: What is algorithmic bias?
Clue: When students use AI but skip the studying process, it leads to this educational issue.
Answer: What is dependency on AI?
Clue: Though AI therapy apps could potentially help people, there's a crucial question that arises whether a machine will ever be able to replace this human trait?
Answer: What is empathy?
Clue: You watch some absolutely ridiculous video that makes no sense whatsoever. It's noisy, chaotic, perhaps even AI-generated, but you can't stop laughing. Why?
️ Answer: What is absurd/chaotic humor (or overstimulation humor)?
Clue: Modern AI doesn't have any cognitive abilities. Instead, it simply:
️ Answer: What is recognize patterns in data?
Clue: While AI algorithms might seem like they understand what they're saying, they actually fail to understand their responses. This concept is called:
️ Answer: What is lack of true understanding (pattern-based responses)?
Clue: This is the main question of this game, is AI enhancing our critical thinking skills or is it doing this?
️ Answer: What is thinking for us?