{"slug": "what-is-the-hottest-gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai", "title": "What is the hottest Gen-Z tech trend? Anti-AI.", "summary": "Gen Z is embracing anti-AI tech trends, building DIY 'cyberdecks' from Raspberry Pi and spare parts that reject artificial intelligence. The movement follows a surge in retro iPod sales, with Back Market reporting a nearly 50% increase last year and eBay seeing over 1,300 iPod searches per hour.", "body_md": "My favorite tech trend so far this year has nothing to do with artificial intelligence.\n\nIt’s the cool girls making their own “cyberdecks,” — strange, DIY and highly customizable personal computers that explicitly reject AI. They look like props from a cyberpunk movie, usually built on a Raspberry Pi base and spare parts. As one tinkerer, whose “mermaid cyberdeck” videos have drawn tens of millions of views, puts it: “What we should do with cyberdecks is gatekeep them from AI and megacorp.”\n\nThe cyberdeck boom follows the iPod as another Gen Z hardware obsession. Many of the models now being hunted online were released before their new owners were born. Refurbished tech site Back Market said that iPod sales jumped almost 50% last year, while eBay says “iPod” was searched more than 1,300 times an hour.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-is-the-hottest-gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/15/world/gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai/", "published_at": "2026-06-15 08:10:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-15 08:17:58.813931+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-ethics", "ai-policy", "ai-safety", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Raspberry Pi", "Back Market", "eBay", "iPod"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-is-the-hottest-gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-is-the-hottest-gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-is-the-hottest-gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-is-the-hottest-gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai.jsonld"}}