# What is the hottest Gen-Z tech trend? Anti-AI. > Source: > Published: 2026-06-15 08:10:00+00:00 My favorite tech trend so far this year has nothing to do with artificial intelligence. It’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.” The 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.