Digging into Gen Zs love/hate relationship with AI
Home > Tech Digging into Gen Z's love/hate relationship with AI A YouGov/Mashable survey will challenge your assumptions about AI and people born in the late '90s and 2000s. By Rebecca Ruiz Rebecca Ruiz Senior Reporter Rebecca Ruiz is a Senior Reporter at Mashable. She frequently covers mental health, digital culture, and technology.
- ▪Home > Tech Digging into Gen Z's love/hate relationship with AI A YouGov/Mashable survey will challenge your assumptions about AI and people born in the late '90s and 2000s.
- ▪By Rebecca Ruiz Rebecca Ruiz Senior Reporter Rebecca Ruiz is a Senior Reporter at Mashable.
- ▪She frequently covers mental health, digital culture, and technology.
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| Original publisher | Mashable |
| Canonical URL | https://mashable.com/tech/how-gen-z-uses-ai |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T09:31:02.440Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T09:31:02.440Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Home > Tech Digging into Gen Z's love/hate relationship with AI A YouGov/Mashable survey will challenge your assumptions about AI and people born in the late '90s and 2000s. By Rebecca Ruiz Rebecca Ruiz Senior Reporter Rebecca Ruiz is a Senior Reporter at Mashable. She frequently covers mental health, digital culture, and technology. Her areas of expertise include suicide prevention, screen use and mental health, parenting, youth well-being, and meditation and mindfulness. Rebecca's experience prior to Mashable includes working as a staff writer, reporter, and editor at NBC News Digital and as a staff writer at Forbes. Rebecca has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a masters degree from U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
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