I saw a young person ask ChatGPT how long their flight was today when they were literally holding the boarding pass with that information on it in the same hand that had the phone in it.

[sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I saw a young person ask ChatGPT how long their flight was today when they were literally holding the boarding pass with that information on it in the same hand that had the phone in it. ChatGPT spat out about 4 paragraphs on the subject when the answer was “40 minutes”. What a time to be alive

[nigel_lake@mastodon.world]

@sinbad I hear stories about teenagers who can't tell the time on an analogue clock or watch. If ignorance is bliss, the next generation will surely enter nirvana...

[mikemccaffrey@pdx.social]

@sinbad That does not sound plausible. Why in 2026 would a young person be holding a physical boarding pass?

[sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mikemccaffrey amazingly they do still give them out

[slyborg@vmst.io]

@sinbad @jwz The Great Poopcopalypse when a day-long network failure prevents people from getting the LLM to tell them when to take a shit will be an incredible tragedy…

[mikemccaffrey@pdx.social]

@sinbad Does not seem like a common occurrence, so I'm not shocked that a young person would not to think to look for disembarkation information on the document that is explicitly for boarding the plane.

[sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mikemccaffrey It’s just the default here if you check bags in, which they had done. It’s also your baggage receipt. Entirely possible they never thought to look at it

[ndevenish@mas.to]

@mikemccaffrey @sinbad most of the flights I’ve taken in the past couple of years have given boarding passes. Even if their apps support in principle they print you one to use instead anyway.

“Does not seem common” I assume only applies to the subset of ((US, Internal))