Meet Generation Quit

Plus: The upside-down stock market, and why AI chatbots are for suckers.

View in browser Subscribe February 19, 2023 Hi, I'm Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today: Sunday Edition, a roundup of our top stories of the week.    On the agenda today: The stock market has turned upside down. The "surveillance state" behind the scenes of the $1,700 Snoo bassinet. Gen Z has adapted to a new normal at work — by quitting. A make-or-break moment for the fast-growing psychedelics industry. But first: Adam Rogers, a senior tech correspondent at Insider, breaks down why ChatGPT is for suckers. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. DISPATCH Chatbots are liars iStock; Rebecca Zisser/Insider I, and 10,000 other reporters, have been telling you for weeks what artificial-intelligence researchers have known for years: Chatbots like the ones Google and Microsoft are building into their search engines are liars, Insider's Adam Rogers writes. They make stuff up. They get stuff wrong. But people still believe them. Why? Well, social scientists don't really know why anyone believes anything, from kooky stuff they read on Twitter to closely held ideals. Add Google and Bing into the mix, and things get weirder. We're trained to expect the truth from search engines, and chatbots present like authoritative humans. They have what sounds like facts, but they talk about themselves in the first person ("I believe … "). What they say seems good enough, and according to some research, "Meh, seems fine," is all the distance most folks are willing to go for knowledge. We all tend to avoid hard questions, and the new chatbots are here with easy answers. Why ChatGPT is a robot con artist. Read more: The new ChatGPT clones from Google and Microsoft are going to destroy online search   THIS WEEK'S STORIES The Great Stock Market Reversal Getty Images The stock market has been flipped upside down so far in 2023. Risky assets that struggled last year are now staging a big comeback, even in the face of continued rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. Some of the biggest losers in 2022, like bitcoin, electric-vehicle stocks, and unprofitable software companies, have soared in the first six weeks of 2023. And investor hype has made a big resurgence as artificial intelligence captures the imagination of consumers. More on the topsy-turvy stock market. Read more: A rogue version of ChatGPT is predicting the stock market will crash next month. Here's why the AI chatbot is dead wrong. A bassinet and 'Big Brother' allegations Michelle Rohn / Insider Nina Montée Karp and her husband and cofounder, Harvey Karp, launched the Snoo — a $1,700 high-tech bassinet — in 2016. They've since been hailed as visionaries.  One current and more than a dozen former employees of Happiest Baby, the company behind Snoo, told Insider that it's far stranger — and more poorly run — than all their glowing profiles would suggest. They described a celebrity-obsessed, gossip-fueled "surveillance state" where even the office cleaner was used to collect intel on employees. Inside Happiest Baby's dysfunctional culture. Read more: Dr. Harvey Karp planned to tell the press the $1,700 Snoo was 'proven to reduce SIDS' last summer. But the FDA stamp of approval never came. Welcome to Generation Quit Carol Yepes / Getty Images Gen Z was perhaps hit hardest during the "Great Resignation." The youngest workers were the first on the chopping block in 2020 layoffs. And those who remained saw mentors leave and were forced to plug holes when other team members left. Faced with those conditions, Gen Z has adapted to a new normal: When in doubt, find a new job. How Gen Z suffers from a lack of support. Read more: 6 ways to attract Gen Z job seekers — and what they value most in companies Big Tech's massive layoffs will come back to haunt it THIS WEEK'S QUOTE "I was achieving something that I'd wanted more than anything for 15 years."  — Bryan O'Keeffe, who moved to a remote village, quit his job, and cut off contact with loved ones for seven months — and lost 137 pounds. MORE TOP READS Amazon, 'wonder drug', & more In a new interview with Insider, ousted Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard sounds off on Elon Musk and the EV wars. Amazon's pledge to become "Earth's best employer" hasn't taken off, employees say. Meet the 20 powerhouse bankers who orchestrated the biggest deals of 2022. A couple who paid off their $234,000 mortgage in five years explains how they invest. Go inside Tracy Anderson's cutthroat fitness empire. An ex-Amazon manager says he quit after fighting unfair performance reviews. Some doctors say a $0.20 "wonder drug" to slow aging and lose weight is promising. A man built a five-bedroom home with his parents — and says more people should do it. CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Keep up with Insider Get Insider's app and notifications to be the first to find out about the stories you want to know — from tech to business. Download it here. Become an Insider subscriber to get actionable, high-value news and insights to improve your career, company, and community. Subscribe here. Want more of Insider in your inbox? Sign up for our newsletters here.   This edition was curated by Matt Turner, and edited by Dave Smith and Lisa Ryan. Get in touch: insidertoday@insider.com. Email sent to: elancelorilla.trendlist@blogger.com Manage your email preferences  |  Unsubscribe  |  Terms of Service  |  Privacy Policy © 2023 Insider Inc. 1 Liberty Plaza, New York, NY 10006