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Sure. All people have their own opinions. Grouping people by a specific trait doesn't give you a monolith that shares the same opinions on everything. There are Blacks, Latinos, Gays, and Trans for Trump.
The comment was refuting the insinuation in the headline that only young people feel this way because older people are stupid and awful. Somehow while trying to appear to be welcoming and not discriminate against minorities, the internet has become full of ageist discrimination. Age is another trait people can't control or change. Discriminating or mocking people based on that is as wrong as doing the same based on skin color or sexuality.
Older people aren't stupid and awful, they are just generally more set in their ways, and factually ARE more vulnerable to misinformation and lies, which is why they're the most vulnerable to scams.
The previous generation, at least in America, was far more repressed and had far less access to information than we do today, which results in more narrow-minded beliefs. Not all old people are like this, but the comment you're talking about said "old people don't trust ai" which is not true. Old people as a group do, this person as an individual in that group does not.
Old people as a group don't exist. There is no monolith based on simple traits like age, or race, or gender. While more members of one specific group sharing any of these traits can be likely to trust or mistrust or agree with anything, boiling them down to a singular opinion or mental state is always wrong. It's discriminatory.
You saying old people as a group do trust AI is as fucked up as saying that black people as a group do love watermelon.